The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday called on governments to reverse the trend of a global epidemic in childhood obesity by promoting healthy foods and...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that Guinea is free of Ebola. According to CNN, declaration was made because 42 days have passed since the last person confirmed to...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that eating processed meat and red meat is just as much of a cancer risk as smoking cigarettes. WHO...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said no new Ebola infections were reported in West Africa in the past week, bringing Sierra Leone closer to...
Sierra Leone on Friday began a three-day countrywide lockdown in an attempt to halt the spread of Ebola Virus Disease. Alfred Conteh, Head, National Ebola Response...
The first large-scale Ebola vaccine trials in West Africa are expected to start in Liberia as early as late January, a senior official at the World...
At the gathering of Pharmacists in Uyo, Reload Multivitamin was acknowledged to have “achieved the standard of the World Health Organisation” by Professor of Pediatrics University...
Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Aminu Wali has asked countries to stop further discrimination and stigmatisation of Nigerians over Ebola after the main UN health body...
Marie Kieny, Head of Health Information of WHO, said Ebola drug trials and collection of survivors’ blood for treating patients would get underway in West Africa...
Fear of the spread of the Ebola virus has prompted the cancellation of a sabre fencing World Cup event in Dakar, Senegal by the sport’s world...
Monrovia (Reuters/NAN) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday night in Monrovia predicted that Liberia would see thousands of new cases of Ebola virus in...
First Consultant Hospital, the facility in Lagos that treated Ebola victim – Patrick Sawyer, has released a statement detailing what happened while he was being treated....
Abuja (NAN) – The Nigerian Embassy in Abu Dhabi says it “resisted pressure’’ from local authorities for the immediate burial of a Nigerian woman who died...
Sheik Umar Khan, the doctor leading the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone, has died from the virus. Sierra Leone’s chief medical officer confirmed the news...
ABUJA (NAN) ― The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, said on Friday that the ministry was collaborating with other ministries to protect Nigerians from being infected by...
In June 2012, the World Health Organisation released a report on the danger of mercury in skin lightening soaps and creams which revealed that Nigerians are...
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