On Tuesday, some officials of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) trained schoolgirls in Osun state Public schools on how to make washable sanitary pad in order to achieve menstrual hygiene.

A nursing student has been confirmed dead while 65 others are being monitored following the outbreak of Lassa fever in Anambra State.

Global donors have reaffirmed their commitment to eradicate polio in Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan under the auspices of Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GEPI) has donated $1.2 billion to finance efforts to end the disease.

Report published by Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) on Tuesday indicates that over 50 million Nigerians are currently suffering from malaria. The report blamed this alarming figure to the prevalence of mosquito resistance to insecticide nets particularly in 18 states of the federation.

As part of efforts to enhance the performance of the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS), the Federal Ministry of Health is drafting a law to establish a National Blood Service Commission and a network of 17 trauma care centers across the country.

People who are aged 75 or older and take aspirin daily to ward off heart attacks face a significantly elevated risk of serious or even fatal bleeding and should be given heartburn drugs to minimize the danger, a 10-year study has found.