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Children born with congenital heart disease (CHD) across Africa face a double burden of delayed treatment and crushing financial pressure on their families, a new investigation…

If your functional medicine plan involves a dozen supplement bottles, your kitchen counter can start looking like a small pharmacy. Each product may have a…

The Kano State Centre for Disease Control (KNCDC) has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Bayero University, Kano (BUK), as part of efforts to strengthen disease…

Finding a bariatric surgeon when you have a BMI over 35 means managing higher surgical risks than the average patient. The surgeon you choose can…

Weeks after her case was first brought to public attention, the family of three-month-old Adegbite Robiah, who urgently needs corrective heart surgery, says it has raised…

Few pet owners think about emergency vet care until the moment they need it, a sudden collapse, a swallowed object, an unexplained seizure. By then,…

Dr Bolaji Lateef Salako, a consultant clinical radiation oncologist at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, explains how chemotherapy works, why it does not spread cancer, the…

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) and Mobihealth International are collaborating on a national initiative designed to leverage telehealth, community engagement, and digital health innovation to improve…

More than two million Nigerians are living with avoidable blindness, largely caused by cataracts, the Ophthalmological Society of Nigeria (OSN) has said. The Vice-President of the…

Eating tomatoes every day may help reduce the amount of fat stored in the liver among people with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), according to…