The preponderance of the dreaded Lassa Fever virus in Ebonyi State has led to the state government adopting new strategies to fight the outbreak and spread of the disease in the state.As part of measures to fight the spread of the deadly virus, the Ebonyi State government has embarked on the construction of modern virology laboratory worth N250 million.
University Hospitals SeidmanCancer Center physicians have started the world's first clinical trial using a new form of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) to deliver radiation to a specific area of the prostate invaded with cancer - instead of the entire gland. 
A Nigerian scientist and Chief Executive Officer, Fydor Biotechnologies, Dr. Eddy Agbo, has inaugurated a technology that will improve the diagnosis of malaria in the country.
Agbo, who won the 2015 Health Innovation Challenge Award for designing the Urine Malaria Test kit, said the technology would reduce misdiagnosis and give a true picture of the burden of malaria in the country.
MSD, known as Merck & Co., Inc. in the United States and Canada, has added its voice to the World Health Organization (WHO) campaign to promote the use of vaccines against some of the world's deadliest diseases, and for countries to strengthen immunization services and systems.
World Immunization Week, a global awareness campaign launched by WHO in 2012 and commemorated in the last week of April, aims to promote the use of vaccines to help protect people of all ages against disease.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged Rivers Government to strengthen primary healthcare services in the state to ensure qualitative services.
WHO's Country Representative in Nigeria, Dr Rui Gama Vas, made the call in Port Harcourt when he visited Rivers Governor, Chief Nyeson Wike. He said that enlivening primary healthcare service centres across the state would ensure swift reaction to health emergencies.
THE Federal Government yesterday said it would no longer provide resources to any government official to travel abroad for medical attention on cases that could be handled in the country.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 56th Annual General Conference and delegates meeting of Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, in Sokoto, President Muhammadu Buhari, said his administration would not encourage expending hard earned resources on any government official seeking medical care abroad.
Of the $ 3.6 billion (N720 billion) required for the humanitarian response to El Niño, the health sector needs nearly $460 million (N92 billion), just as the World Health Organisation (WHO) requires $51 million (N10.2 billion) to provide urgent healthcare.
El Niño is an oscillation of the ocean-atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific, having important consequences for weather around the globe.
A new President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) emerged on the 28th April, 2016 at the 56th Annual Delegate Meeting and General Conference taking place in Sokoto.
Professor Mike Ogirima, who is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria; along with his Executives are saddled with the responsibility of piloting the affairs of the Association for the next 2 years.
A consortium of eight non-governmental organizations working for the promotion of children and women health under the aegis of the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH) has expressed concern over the decision of the National Assembly to reduce the budgetary provision for polio immunization in the proposed 2016 budget. 
Medical doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) have decried the absence of ambulances stationed along the Abuja-Kaduna highway for the purpose of prompt emergency care and evacuation of victims of accidents.
The Minister for Health, Prof. Isaac Folorunsho Adewole has officially confirmed his attendance as the chief guest of honour at the upcoming third Nigerian Health Awards.
While expressing gratitude for the invitation to recognise and celebrate individuals and organisations committed to qualitative healthcare service delivery, he confirmed that the award is in line with the Federal Government’s agenda to save lives by ensuring excellent performance in the health sector as well as stimulate healthy competition among practitioners in the healthcare community.
Lagos State government yesterday said it is determined to end treatment of ailments overseas, saying the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) recently carried out the first successful Bone Bridge Surgery in West Africa.
The state’s commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris who stated this at a briefing said LASUTH has also carried out successful cochlear implant surgeries on three deaf patients without the support of foreign doctors.
With about 45.9 million Nigerians, (27%) of the population, including pregnant women and children harbouring the malaria parasites in their blood and at the risk of severe morbidity and death from the disease, the Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole has advanced reasons why malaria has continued to thrive in the country, defying potent control measures designed to check its menace.
Speaking at a briefing to commemorate this year World Malaria Day in Abuja last week, the minister put the blame squarely on Nigerians, saying they constitute the greatest obstacle in the fight against the malaria scourge through their inability or failure to embrace measures aimed at defeating the ailment.
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