The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) operatives raided a Lagos warehouse and seized controlled drugs, such as Tramadol, valued at N105.6...
Philips introduces new mobile, app-based approach to ultrasound delivery that brings secure cloud-enabled technology and high-image quality to broader network of healthcare providers Industry-first integrated portable-ultrasound...
The Nigerian healthcare system is in crisis and all hands need to be on deck to sort it out in a sustainable manner. No one appreciates...
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) has decried the high number of unimmunized children in Nigeria. The Executive Secretary of the NPHCDA, Faisal Shuaib, who...
A high-level memorandum of understanding (MoU) for medical research and development has been signed between the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), the department of science...
Ethiopia’s Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has become the first African to take up the role of director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Prior to...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has mobilised its resources to curtail an outbreak of Ebola after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ministry of health (MoH)...
The United Nations health agency’s regional office for Africa has announced that Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi will take part in a breakthrough pilot programme to make...
If you’re a healthy adult and there’s nothing to complain about, you likely have no immediate plan to go for a checkup. However, serious conditions can...
The mHealth and wellness sector is an exciting growth opportunity for Africa, its innovators and entrepreneurs. Therefore mLab Southern Africa has extended its partnership with the...
Could Zimbabwe’s new Health Development Fund rescue the country’s cash-strapped clinics and hospitals? For two years, Widna Chiyangwa from Harare, Zimbabwe, suffered in pain. She was...
The sum of $1.1bn is currently required th vaccinate 22m people in the five Nigerian states affected by the outbreak of the type C cerebro-spinal meningitis....
The first medical school since the advent of democracy is set to be built in Limpopo, said the province’s health MEC, Phophi Ramathuba during her budget...
The first national public health training centre, constructed by the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was formally inaugurated and handed over to...
A N200m renovation project to sections of the Murtala Muhammed Specialists’ Hospital in Kano, Nigeria has been completed, to complement a N7bn surgical and diagnostic centre...
More people die of lung cancer each year than breast, colon, and prostate cancers combined. One particularly lethal form of the disease is lung adenocarcinoma or...
Many consumers believe that because generics are cheaper they must be inferior. This lack of understanding costs consumers and medical aids millions of rands each year....
Twin girls joined at the lower abdomen were separated in a six-hour operation at the Netcare Unitas Hospital in Centurion on Saturday, 21 January. Speaking ahead...
South Africa has estimated a R350 billion annual health care industry, with the department of health moving towards eHealth solutions in line with World Health Organisation...
The growing demand for personalised medicine and the increasing simplicity of genetic testing underpins the concept of pharmacogenomics – which gives medical practitioners the power to...
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