Thousands of people in Africa die needlessly each year because of fake and counterfeit medication.
It is a worrying trend released in an EU- funded report on Tuesday.
The vulnerable in Africa suffer the most.
“ The problem is also the access...
African countries have been sites for clinical trials by large pharmaceutical companies, raising human rights concerns. Incidents of unethical experimentation, clinical trials lacking properly, informed consent, and forced medical procedures have been claimed and prosecuted.
African countries have been sites...
A scourge that Africa's leadership inflicts on their people is presiding over derelict and ailing health systems, while they get treatment at top hospital in European, American and Asian lands. African hospitals are not built for African presidents.
One of...
No fewer than 415 million people are living with diabetes globally, which is projected to reach 642 million by 2040, the Diabetes Association of Nigeria (DAN) has said.
National president of the association Dr Mohammed Alkali disclosed this on
Monday at...
A clinical nutritionist at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi - Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State , Dr Okunola Oladimeji has warned against excessive intake of sugar, stressing that honey is not an alternative to sugar.
In an interview with punch Newspaper,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO), the governments of Nigeria and Spain have collaborated towards bringing treatment to persons with mental illness in the troubled North-Eastern Nigeria.
A recent report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs...
More than 23 per cent of deaths in Africa are linked to the environment, the World Health Organisation has said.
According to WHO, this is the highest for any region on a per capita basis (deaths per 100 000).
Matshidiso Moeti,...
A study conducted among 400 000 women in the UK Biobank looked at approximately 450 biomarkers and found that earlier risers are less likely to develop breast cancer than those who up stay up late at night.
As reported by...
The rate of girls under the age of 14 who undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa has seen a “huge and significant decline” over nearly three decades, according to a new analysis.
The study, published Wednesday in the global...
Work really can kill you, according to a study published in 2008 providing the strongest evidence yet of how on-the-job stress raises the risk of heart disease by disrupting the body’s internal systems.
The findings from a long-running study...
