Pharmaceutical firms must be “very transparent” about the risks and benefits of vaccines in efforts to end the coronavirus pandemic, the head of Asia’s largest drugmaker has said. “We have to manage the situation well, be very transparent and extremely…
Britain’s Secretary of Health, Matt Hancock, says a new variant of coronavirus has been identified in the country. Among other foreign media breaking the news, The Independent and BBC quoted Hancock as saying the new strain of virus might be…
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and concluded it is both safe and effective. The MHRA is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom that is…
This is the full text of the World Health Organisation to the 75th UN General Assembly held virtually on Tuesday As the world comes together at an unprecedented virtual session of the 75th UN General Assembly (UNGA), WHO has three…
The just suspended strike by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, which took its toll on patients while it lasted, is an indication that the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic may never change government’s poor attitude towards the health sector. Members…
August 25, 2020, will remain indelible in the minds of many Nigerians. It will remain indelible because it was the day the World Health Organisation declared Nigeria and the African Region free of wild polio virus. The declaration came after…
“Could you patent the sun?” The acclaimed reply from Jonas Salk when asked whether he’d be patenting his breakthrough polio vaccine. The poliovirus, which once killed or maimed hundreds of thousands of children every year and led to summertime lockdowns…
Medical tourism, a term used to describe trips abroad for medical treatment is a phenomenon that has plagued Nigeria for years. This phenomenon has been exacerbated over the years by the neglect of the nation’s health sector by successive governments. …
Kano was in the news again last week, this time, for the right reason. The state was commended by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control for its positive response to the outbreak of COVID-19. The NCDC singled out Kano for…
Over five months after the outbreak of COVID-19 in Nigeria, health workers at the forefront of fighting the viral pandemic are still lamenting inadequate Personal Protective Equipment. Many people had expected that Nigeria will be in a good position to…