Why men die before women – WHO.

            A World Health Organisation (WHO) report says men are more likely to die earlier than women. The “2019 World Health Statistics”…

UNTH Records 230 Successful Open-heart Surgeries.

        Chairman, National Cardiothoracic Centre of Excellence, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku Ozalla, Enugu, Professor Basden Onwubere,…

NAFDAC alerts Nigerians on fake cholera vaccine.

                The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted Nigerians and the…

Chinese Doctor Ling Zhipei Performs Remote Brain Surgery On Patient 3,000km Away.

     A Chinese doctor, Dr. Ling Zhipei has performed the first ever brain surgery over a 5G mobile network, according to Chinese media. A patient with Parkinson's disease allegedl…

South-south Leads In HIV Prevalence, Northwest Lowest.

     The South-south geopolitical zone has the highest HIV prevalence among adults age 15 to 64 years in the country with 3.1 percent, while the Northwest had the lowest preva…

DR Congo Ebola Outbreak: Baby survives after being infected at six days old, becomes world's youngest Ebola survivor

A baby girl who was admitted to an Ebola treatment centre just six days after birth has now recovered from the virus, health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have announced.The baby is…

Uzbekistan declared a malaria-free country by WHO

Uzbekistan has been certified a malaria-free country by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday, after a long and deadly battle with the disease which has killed nearly 40,000 people in the ca…

Nine confirmed yellow fever related death in Edo State

Nine confirmed yellow fever related death have been reported in Edo state following an outbreak of the viral infection, the state government says.Commissioner for Health, Dr. David Osifo, amde this k…

World's first birth with transplanted uterus of a dead donor

The first baby born from the uterus of a dead donor, following a successful uterus transplant performed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been reported on Wednesday.With the rate of infertility in couples be…

DR Congo Ebola Outbreak: 19 killed in five days, taking death toll to 241

DR Congo's health ministry have says the Ebola outbreak, which began an August 1, claimed another 19 lives in a space of five days taking the number of people killed by the virus to 241.The ministry …

DR Congo Ebola Outbreak: New daily record as 13 new cases confirmed

DR Congo's health ministry has confirmed thirteen new cases of Ebola in the northeastern part of the country. This figure represents the highest daily count since the beginning of this latest outbrea…

Conjoined twin girls successfully separated at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital, Australia

Conjoined Bhutanese twins have been successfully separated at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital, in Australia after a six hour operation.The 15-month-old twin girls, Nima and Dawa, joined at the …

New study finds pregnancy gap of at least a year ideal

A new study by University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Harvard TH Chan School of Public, says women do not have to wait for an interval of 18 to 24 months between giving birth and getting pregna…

New tuberculosis drug cures 8 in 10 patients

A new treatment for a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis can cure 80 percent of sufferers, according to a trial hailed Monday as a "game changer" in the fight against the global killer.Doctors in …

Doctors find 122 nails in patient's stomach

Ethiopian doctors extracted over a hundred iron nails and other sharp objects from the stomach of a patient in the capital Addis Ababa at the weekend.Dawit Teare, a surgeon at St. Peter's Specialised…

Virginity test violates female human rights - UN agencies

A group of United Nations agencies has issued a joint statement calling for a ban on tests meant to assess the virginity of any female.The statement, issued during the World Congress of Gynaecology a…

South African doctors transfer liver from HIV-positive mother to save her child's life

Faced with the only chance to save a child's life, doctors in South Africa have performed a medical first -- transplanting part of the liver from a HIV-positive mother to her HIV-negative child, it w…

Cholera outbreak: WHO launches second vaccination drive in Yemen

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it was helping Yemeni authorities with a second round of vaccination against cholera in three hard-hit districts, as cases surged across the war-ravaged …

New study says women at greater risk of suffering stroke, dementia and Parkinson

Nearly half of women and one in three men are at risk of developing stroke or degenerative neurological diseases such as dementia and Parkinson's during their lifetime, according to a study published…

First human case of rat hepatitis found in Hong Kong

A 56-year-old man from Hong Kong has developed the world's first human case of rat hepatitis E.Researchers say it is unclear how the man contacted the virus, but refuse bins outside his home were inf…