Advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP,  has called on Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to immediately obey Monday’s court judgment ordering all hospitals in the state to stop the practice of mandating husbands to donate blood as a condition for their pregnant wives to access ante-natal care. The judgment was delivered by Justice […]

An Italian citizen who entered Lagos  on the 25th of February from Milan, Italy for a brief business visit has been confirmed of having Coronavirus disease. The case, which was confirmed on the 27th of February 2020, is the first case to be reported in Nigeria since the outbreak in China in January 2020. According […]

Lagos State Government says the Chinese citizen suspected to have coronavirus has tested negative to the infection. The Commissioner for Health in the state, Professor Akin Abayomi, confirmed this in a statement on Thursday, a day after the patient presented himself at a hospital in Ikeja. He noted that the possibility of the infection of […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has pledged to step-up campaign against the use of paracetamol by some Nigerians to cook their food. The Director-General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said in Abuja that NAFDAC got to know about the use of Paracetamol tablet to cook meat in December 2019. She […]

A research letter published this week describes the case of a woman in China who spread COVID-19 to five people without displaying any symptoms.  Although international efforts to curb the coronavirus outbreak are in full swing, some view this recent finding as a cause for concern. To date, the vast majority of cases have […]

Lagos State Government, through the Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency, HEFAMAA, shut down 20 health facilities in the month of January for non-compliance with regulatory standards. The Executive Secretary, HEFAMAA, Dr. Abiola Idowu, made the disclosure after a recent enforcement exercise carried out by the agency, stressing that the State government remains committed to […]

A new study conducted by researchers from the United Nations health agency revealed that bladder cancer mutations can be detected in urine up to 10 years before clinically diagnosing the disease. The test is based on detecting mutations in the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) gene – a crucial element for cancer genesis and progression – […]

Death toll from the outbreak in mainland China reached 2,236 as of the end of Thursday, up by 118 from the previous day. Mainland China had 118 new deaths from the coronavirus outbreak by the end of Thursday, the national health commission reported on Friday, pushing the number of deaths nationwide to at least 2,236. Beijing also reported 1,109 […]

To prevent viral infections, doctors suggest practicing good hand hygiene. In light of the recent coronavirus outbreak, public health guidelines continue to emphasize this. Is hand washing really that helpful in the context of an epidemic? New research suggests that it is. A new study explains why hand washing is so important when it comes […]

A vaccine for the novel coronavirus could take 12 to 18 months to develop, according to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general for the World Health Organization. But a vaccine is preparing for “the worst situation,” he said, and for now, long-term preparation needs to be balanced with immediate public health solutions that contain the virus and […]