[ad_1] The protection against COVID-19 from being previously infected lasts at least as long as that offered by vaccination, one of the largest studies conducted on the subject said on Friday. Ten months after getting COVID-19, people still had an 88 percent lower risk of reinfection, hospitalisation and death, according to the study published in…
[ad_1] The World Health Organisation (WHO) has sent health emergency experts in epidemiology, case management, infection prevention, and laboratory and risk communication to assist the health authorities in Equatorial Guinea to contain the first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in the country. The United Nations (UN) agency is equally facilitating the shipment of laboratory…
[ad_1] Mary Onoja, a Nigerian, recently graduated as the overall best student with a distinction in a master’s degree programme from the medical school of the University of the East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom (UK). The public research university is among the 30 best in the UK. Mary, who read Health Economics, said she…
[ad_1] United States biotech company Moderna said on Thursday that it had mixed results from a large-scale trial of its mRNA flu shot, based on the same technology used in its successful COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna’s experimental mRNA-1010 flu shot is “quadrivalent,” meaning it targets four strains of flu: A/H1N1, A/H3N2, B/Yamagata and B/Victoria n- selected…
[ad_1] A police man on routine patrol has shot dead a 65-year-old woman in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. Eye witnesses reported that residents had demanded an explanation from a patrol team that arrested a young man outside his house at Doubeli in Yola and in the course of altercation, one of the police men…
[ad_1] A major breakthrough in healthcare delivery was recorded on Wednesday, February 15, 2023, by the Akwa Ibom State Government, especially in the area of cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, as a team of medical doctors performed first full implantation of transveinus cardiac pacemaker on two patients, using state-of-the-art medical facilities installed at the…
[ad_1] By Zayd Ibn Isah The death of Whitney Adeniran last Thursday reminds me of the equally tragic death of Sylvester Oromoni of Dowen College last year. Whitney Odesola Adeniran was a 12-year-old student of Chrisland School, Lagos. And by all accounts, she died during the school’s annual Inter-house Sports Festival at Agege Stadium in…
[ad_1] By Bolaji Okunola The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan-Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, on valentine’s day demonstrated his love for humanity by dashing out gifts to newborn babies in Oyo and Osun State. No fewer than 20 babies received gifts from the revered monarch when his queen, Temitope Morenike Enitan-Ogunwusi, who on behalf of Ooni visited…
[ad_1] …Appeals to CBN, FG to review policy From Gyang Bere, Jos The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Plateau State has appealed to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Federal Government to proffer permanent solution to the scarcity of the redesigned naira notes in the country as it is causing health havoc on innocent Nigerians….
By Juliet Jacob Pregnant Shema’u Sani Labaran about to deliver her baby died at the Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital in Kano State, on account of delay in payment of…
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