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Health

Covid-19 care costs $52b every four weeks

New modelling research, published in The Lancet Global Health journal, estimates that it could cost low- and middle-income countries around $52 billio

PROBLEM: Fever? Try: wild leaf steam bath

Many who use it don’t have a specific name for this bath, but it is a mix of different leaves–acacia, mango and guava. Combine all in a vessel, top wi

Discovery of four COVID-19 risk groups helps guide treatment

People who are admitted to hospital with Covid-19 can be divided into four distinct groups, according to data from the world’s largest study of patien

NAFDAC set to phase out alcohol in sachets, bottles

The Director General of the National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Moji Christianah Adeyeye, has revealed plans to

Sudan’s ‘silent death’ from flesh-eating cuts

It seemed little to worry about: Sudanese farmer Khadija Ahmad was planting onions when she stepped on a thorn that pierced her sandal and cut her foo