Nigeria will this week host leaders of the World Health Organisation, an international health agency which has been working on various health interventions in the country.
According to a press statement released by WHO on Sunday, Nigeria will be hosting...
Each year World TB Day is commemorated on March 24 to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of tuberculosis (TB) and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic. The date marks...
A suburb in south Africa is now home to the latest in medical-dispensing technology.
A Johannesburg suburb of Alexandra in South Africa is now home to Africa's first Pharmacy Dispensing Unit (PDU) - a self-service ATM-style unit that gives patients...
Malaria is still one of the biggest health problems in Africa, accounting for some 90 percent of cases and deaths. The costs of health services to diagnose it, drugs to treat it, and its effect on productivity continue to...
World Health Organisation (WHO) has published a global TB report every year since 1997. The main aim of the report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and...
Study has shown that women with big butts have lower risk of killer diseases than thin people.
German researchers say women who are pear-shaped tend to escape killer diseases, as the bottom and thighs are safer places to store fat...
Pornography has long been a staple of young men's lives, and it has evolved over time. It has gone from hidden issues of erotic magazines under beds to an easily accessible, multifaceted industry on the Internet.
Right now in our...
A study by a research team from the University of Pennsylvania found that eating fish at least once a week can raise children’s IQ by nearly 5 points in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale.
The study was conducted last month among...
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A new study out of Denmark, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, finds that women who take hormonal birth control have an up to 38% increased risk of developing breast cancer.
The study looked at 1.8 million women...
