A suspected case of monkey pox has caused hysteria in Jos, capital city of Plateau State on Tuesday.

The agitation became heightened due to the ongoing strike by five industrial unions in the health sector, under the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Unions.

However, the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Kamshak Kuden, said it was just a suspected case, and that blood sample of the patient suspected to be infected with the monkey pox virus, has been sent to the laboratory in Abuja.

A brain-imaging study has offered new support for the notion that infants can accurately track other people’s beliefs, and they have the ability to know other people’s mental states. The study at the University of Illinois (UI), posted on the university’s website, showed that when seven-month-old infants viewed videos of an actor who saw,

Members of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) have elected Dr. Francis Adedayo as their new President. He was elected on Sunday at the end of the association’s 58th Annual General Conference and Delegates’ Meeting held in the Federal Capital Territory.

Courtney Act, the Australian drag queen who finished second in Season 6 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, in his latest video explained what it means to be HIV undetectable.

He explains in the video that persons on gay social apps will sometimes mention that they’re undetectable or use different abbreviations to denote their undetectability like UVL, undetectable viral load; [+u], positive undetectable; and U=U, undetectable equals untransmittable.

“Undetectable means someone is living with HIV, they’re on treatment and they’ve suppressed the amount of HIV in their blood to very low levels. If an undetectable viral load can be maintained for six months, HIV is not transmitted to sexual partners, even if condoms aren’t being used,” Act explains.

The leadership of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, on Monday said it has shut Peace Standard Pharmaceutical Limited, Bioraj Pharmaceutical Limited and Emzor Pharmaceuticals Ind. Ltd. after they were implicated in the codeine syrup saga.

The Federal Government has explained the reason behind the recent ban on the production, importation, sale and consumption of Codeine in Nigeria, after a report by BBC highlighting the danger of the substance went viral. The Ministry of Health in a statement issued on Wednesday by the spokesman, Olajide Oshundun