CDC surveillance data show rising extensively drug-resistant Shigella infections, with increasing hospitalization and limited antibiotic treatment...

By Chidinma Ewunonu-Aluko, Ibadan A Public Health Physician, Dr Ifeoluwa Odedina, says Nigeria’s 2030 malaria elimination target may be unrealistic...

High blood pressure sneaks up on you. Most people have no idea until it starts to wear out their heart, brain, or kidneys. It’s even more common now...

High blood pressure sneaks up on you. Most people have no idea until it starts to wear out their heart, brain, or kidneys. It’s even more common now...

Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) – segments of DNA that help bacteria survive the effects of antibiotics – can be present in newborns within the...

By Chidinma Ewunonu-AlukoDr Folusho Balogun, Consultant Paediatrician, Institute of Child Health, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, has...

By Chidinma Ewunonu-AlukoDr Folusho Balogun, Consultant Paediatrician, Institute of Child Health, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, has...

WASHINGTON — The American people disapprove of this Republican-controlled Congress, with a record-tying 86 percent of the public disapproving,...

WASHINGTON — The American people disapprove of this Republican-controlled Congress, with a record-tying 86 percent of the public disapproving,...

TUESDAY, April 21, 2026 — People with sinus infections are often prescribed antibiotics that are more powerful than necessary, a new study has...