Medicine and surgery are not the answer for overweight children, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Releasing its first guidelines addressing the sharp rise in obesity among children and adolescents,…
The WHO said Wednesday it wanted more information from Russia on the death of a plague laboratory technician — and on reports of “a second employee with pneumonia of undetermined…
By TheDailyNewsHub News Desk | October 5, 2026 Nollywood actress and filmmaker Ruth Kadiri has called on the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to intensify…
Global life expectancy is close to the levels seen before the Covid-19 pandemic, but the outlook for years lived in good health is recovering more slowly, the WHO said Friday.…
A hospital in Japan has carried out the world’s first surgery using sheets of commercially available heart muscle stem cells after the ground-breaking therapy was approved this year, one of…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration has approved the immediate renovation and upgrading of 14 existing general hospitals across the territory, while work is set to resume on the long-abandoned Utako…
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has confirmed that a cholera outbreak at the Kurmawa Medium Security Custodial Centre in Kano State has been brought under control after two inmates died…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has urged Nigerians not to ignore persistent fever, particularly when symptoms do not improve after treatment for suspected malaria. The agency…
More than 170,000 respiratory cases were recorded in regions affected by haze in Indonesia, a health ministry official said Tuesday, as the country battles for weeks to control fires that…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has released a health advisory following the update on the ongoing Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of…
