Health

Smile Train and Kids Operating Room Unveil Refurbished Paediatric Theatre at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center The newly refurbished...

The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Medical Center (JFKMC) has opened its doors to a dedicated children's Operating Room with the support...

Monrovia — In commemoration of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in Liberia, the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Liberia's chapter in...

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), otherwise known as Female Circumcision, is an age-old cultural practice that is carried out in many...

The thirty-third meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus...

The WHO Director-General transmits the report of the third meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee regarding...

Professor Neely, Dear students and staff of Umeå University, Good morning, it's an honour for me to join you this...

ABOUT 876 fishing communities at the coast of Indian Ocean in Dar es Salaam have been trained on best practice...

Flush and forget? Not if you have a toilet that flushes to one of over 3,000 sites around the world...

Two new omicron subvariants, BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, are quickly gaining traction in the US, collectively accounting for 27% of infections...

By Inger Andersen I am not going to waste your time talking about the impacts of climate change. We all know...

The Rotary Club of Nigeria has called on the Federal Government and other stakeholders to redouble their efforts on funding...

Isaac Olupot The Kampala Capital City Authority has rallied people in central Uganda to embrace use of Automated innovations as...

Following the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Ugandan, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has alerted that...

Nigeria has rolled out further measures aimed at forestalling and containing any outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus disease in...

Olalekan Adekola (York St John University, UK) and Faith Chan (University of Nottingham, China) The 2012 flooding that swept through Nigeria...

A new study is the first to calculate that countries collectively need a total of 1.2 billion hectares of land...

On the eve of a global climate conference in Sharm El Sheik, The Global Alliance of Territorial Communities, representing 35...

The National Committee on Epidemics and Pandemics Awareness of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has advised governments at all levels...

Non-communicable diseases are the leading cause of many deaths worldwide and present as an emerging global health threat to day....

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has warned the general public against the use of Ascot Diet. According to FDA,...

Government aims to combine high-quality surveillance and public health promotion with a strong childhood immunisation programme to prevent any serious...

DISEASE surveillance at the country's points of entry got boost over the weekend, with a donation of Information and Communication...

Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) in the northern zone has intensified efforts to take counterfeit products off the shelves and...

IN a move to complement the government efforts to reduce non-communicable diseases, the Kimara Korogwe based KAM Musika Hospital has...

Addis Ababa — Thirty seven people have died and more than 131, 000 have been infected with malaria in the...

The Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Dr Zakari Usman has said that the flood has sacked 514 communities while 400,000,...

Born and raised in Atari Village, Kaptoyoy sub-county, in the Kween district of eastern Uganda, 23-year-old Mercy Chebet was married...

El Fida — The sit-in in Abu Hamad, River Nile state, to demand the expulsion of mining companies from the...

THE government has strengthened public health surveillance across the country's entry points and port services as Uganda's capital Kampala records...

Reverend Mrs Patricia Akpene Tegbe-Agbo, the Public Relations Manager of the Global Evangelical Church has advised women who detect lumps...

Dr Josephine Asare, a specialist at the Anton Medical Hospital has advised government to use a nurse-led intervention coupled with...

When it comes to dealing with stress, we're often told the best things we can do are exercise, make time...

Viruses and bacteria have a very long history. Because viruses can't reproduce without a host, they've been attacking bacteria for...

President Lazarus Chakwera has directed Ministry of Health to establish dialysis centre in North Malawi for the first time in...

The development of an effective vaccine for malaria has proved to be far more challenging than developing a vaccine to...

The World Health Organization warned that hospitals are running dangerously low on medical supplies, as fighting between federal and Tigrayan...

Medical marijuana may very well be the agri-business that Africa needs to get its economies high in the global multi-billion...

Zero Malaria: Through the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), Zanzibar plans to end malaria prevalence by 2027 as part of the...

Butterfly, also called dolphin, is the most challenging swimming style. Below are a few tips to hopefully help you glide...