Health

A study conducted by Neimeth International Pharmaceuticals, through its Fight the Good Fight Against Hypertension (FITGAH) has revealed that 36 per cent of Kirikiri prisoners are hypertensive. The Chief Executive …

26 year old Jeffrey Ortega wants his size 16 foot amputated after it swelled due to a genetic condition which leaves him in constant pain and unable to walk. Jeffery, …

A Consultant Ophthalmologist, Dr Abiola Oyeleye, on Saturday said there were no fewer than 285 million blind and severely vision impaired people in the world and that 90 per cent …

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, on Friday said that one out of every six people in the African continent suffered mental disorder.

A man is fighting for his life after being bitten by one of the world’s most poisonous spiders in a toilet. Orlando Jimenez Jimenez, 31, is suffering from kidney and …

An ancient African genome has been sequenced for the first time. Researchers extracted DNA from a 4,500-year-old skull that was discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia. A comparison with genetic …

The Ministry of Health has discredited reports of another case of Ebola in Calabar Cross Rivers, affirming that Nigeria is Ebola free. There was an Ebola scare in Nigeria yesterday …

10 persons have been quarantined in Calabar, Cross River state after a patient at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH died of symptoms of the deadly disease on October …

This baby was born with one eye in the middle of his forehead at a private hospital in the north-eastern town of El Senbellawein, in Egypt recently and doctors don’t …

12-year-old Elijah Zachary Lamaiyan Sime, a student at Lamaiyan Academy in Nairobi received a standing ovation from hundreds of delegates after delivering the opening remarks at a United Nations conference …