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Japan confirmed 10,104 new COVID-19 cases Friday, up some 1,700 from a week before. New coronavirus fatalities totaled 17, while the number of severely ill cases rose by two from Thursday to 59. New positive cases came to 1,441 in Tokyo, ...

World Health Organisation (WHO) has said Africa needs to vaccinate about 33million children between 2023 and 2025 to put the continent back on track to achieve the 2030 global immunisation goals which include reducing morbidity and mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases. ...

Leading telecommunications network provider, Airtel Nigeria, has partnered with AXA Mansard, to launch a digital health insurance plan that provides access to basic health care consultation and minor treatment for customers on the Airtel network. This was announced during a ...

Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has faulted restricting medical practitioners from moving out of the country, declaring that such experts could be exported to needy nations. Nigeria has the challenge of nurses, midwives and doctors exiting the country while the ...

Ghana has approved a new malaria vaccine (R21) from Oxford University to be administered to children from five months to three years old. Trial data from preliminary studies in Burkina Faso showed that the vaccine was up to 80 percent ...

Nigeria’s House of Representatives is in the news following a bill seeking to stop medical doctors from seeking greener pastures less than 5 years after medical school. The action of the parliament came as a reaction to the exodus of ...

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has opposed the compulsory five-year service licensing of doctors proposed by the House of Representatives. The group made its stand known in a communique it issued at the end of its emergency extended ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has said 52 persons have been killed in 21 states by Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM). This is even as the Nasarawa State government said it has not recorded an outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis ...

The Federal Government on Wednesday began an online registration of medical laboratories in Nigeria to enhance service delivery. Dr Tosan Erhabor, the Registrar of the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) made this known in Abuja at a meeting ...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called for the immediate appointment of a substantive chief medical director for the National Hospital, Abuja. The chairman, NMA-FCT, Dr. Charles Ugwulanyi, who made the call at ...