Health

By Ebi kesiena Chinese drug regulators has approved the world’s first inhalable Covid-19 vaccine, made by Tianjin-based manufacturer CanSino Biologics, boosting the company’s share price by seven percent. The National Medical Products Administration gave the go-ahead...

By John Ikani  No fewer than 48 people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo's central province of Sankuru, following a cholera outbreak in the region. Privately-owned news website Actualites CD quoted local health officials...

By John Ikani  Chad's health ministry has announced the re-introduction of compulsory wearing of face masks and observance of social-distancing as the West African nation records rising Covid-19 cases. "In view of the epidemiological situation of...

By John Ikani  The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has extended the two-week ultimatum issued to the Federal Government three weeks ago by another two weeks. This was the decision reached during the scheduled extraordinary...

By John Ikani  The World Health Organization (WHO), which is looking to rename monkeypox, called for help from the public in coming up with a less stigmatising designation for the fast-spreading disease. The UN health agency...

By John Ikani  Researchers have successfully altered the blood type of donor kidneys in a discovery that could increase the supply of the organs for transplant. A kidney from someone with an A blood type cannot...