Thanks to a loophole in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938, some of the “drugs” you can buy at pharmacies are ...

Lassa fever remains a major health challenge in Nigeria, killing 100 people in early 2025. What’s going wrong?

Olive oil is synonymous with the Mediterranean diet, and the health benefits of both are well documented. Olive oil reduces ...

Health Minister says the number of deaths linked to Tuberculosis far outweighs that of those who die from a multitude of well-known diseases combined.

The rapid spread of illness in the African country may be due to contaminated water, rather than a virus that jumped from bat ...

The Ministry of Health is set to launch the nationwide rollout of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine, a historic breakthrough after more than three decades of global efforts to develop an effective ...

Rarely if ever does a newspaper headline include the words “crisis averted,” yet, that is what investments in development ...

These parasites travel to the liver, multiply, and then infect red blood cells, leading to symptoms such as fever, chills, and anemia. "The malaria vaccine helps prime the immune system to fight ...

While five cases in our study population died of scrub typhus, it did not record any deaths from malaria, dengue or typhoid ...

A study in Tamil Nadu, India, finds that scrub typhus is a common yet under-recognized cause of fever, affecting up to 10% of ...

Can the continent walk the talk? **** The African Union has embarked on one of its most audacious health security missions: ...

Among those who were infected, 8 per cent to 15 per cent developed fever which often required hospital care, researchers said ...