The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Wednesday, began a two-day training programme for over 30 journalists in Maiduguri on emergency health coverage.

The Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) said it will collaborate with the Sokoto State government to tackle quackery in the medical laboratory science profession.

The Centre for Disease Control, CDC, has declared that HIV patients cannot transmit the virus to sexual partners if they have suppressed their viral load with medication.

Panic overshadowed the commencement of the Nigerian Army free medical outreach for civilians in Anambra on Wednesday, following social media reports that soldiers were injecting school children with dangerous substances.

Taking multivitamins in early pregnancy may reduce the risk of children developing autism, research suggests. Experts found that children whose mothers had taken the vitamins were around half as likely to develop autism as those whose mothers took none.

In a bid to take away problems that come with conventional methods of closing a wound, a group of American and Australian biomedical engineers has developed a life-saving surgical glue — an adhesive that could seal incisions in a matter of seconds.