The Radiographers Registration Board of Nigeria, an agency of the Federal Government, has sealed a popular clinic in the Maitama area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

During an exercise that lasted for some hours on Monday, the agency arrested a practitioner alleged to be a quack radiographer. He is currently being detained at Maitama Police Station.

The drug, paracetamol, is one of the most commonly used medications around the world. It is a drug you can obtain easily across the counter even in the most advanced nations of the world, and it is available in so many different formats. You can get it as a tablet; caplet; syrup; suppository; an injection or an infusion. It is also available as a component of drug compounds in combination medications.

Paracetamol is used often for the treatment of aches, chills, feverish conditions, cramps and even headaches. Ordinarily, when you have administered it on your own for several days without obtaining the desired result, you ought to consult your doctor. In this part of the world, that is the exception. Sometimes, it is also used in conjunction with other drugs whose properties it accentuates, but also whose side effects it could help reduce. It is therefore, a very useful medication available to many around the world.

Following a recent Court of Appeal judgment that nullified monthly environmental sanitation in the state, the Lagos State Government on Wednesday officially terminated the exercise hitherto held for three hours on the last Saturday of every month.

The state government decision came on the heels of the re- deployment of  the Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr. Akinyemi Ashade by the Lagos state governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode to take over as the Commissioner for Finance.

New UNAIDS report shows that people are particularly vulnerable to HIV at certain points in their lives and calls for a life-cycle approach to find solutions for everyone at every stage of life

Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, a new report by United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) shows that countries are getting on the Fast-Track, with an additional one million people accessing treatment in just six months (January to June 2016). By June 2016, around 18.2 million [16.1 million–19.0 million] people had access to the life-saving medicines, including 910 000 children, double the number five years earlier. If these efforts are sustained and increased, the world will be on track to achieve the target of 30 million people on treatment by 2020.

The National Agency for Food, Drugs, Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has destroyed expired drugs, food, drinks and cosmetics worth N21 million in Nasarawa State. The Acting NAFDAC Director-General, Mrs Yetunde Oni, disclosed this on Thursday, November 24, during the destruction in Lafia.

Oni represented by Alhaji Abubakar Jimoh, Director, Special Duties, said that the periodic destruction exercise was one of NAFDAC’s strategies to prevent the circulation of fake, counterfeit medicines and unwholesome products in the country.

Chinese scientists on Thursday discovered 1,445 new RNA virus species, and this is expected to facilitate future studies in virus evolution and the origins of life. Zhang Yongzhen, researcher with Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, said in Beijing.

Yongzhen said the research was led by a team of scientists at the CDC, with the findings published online in the journal Nature.