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Global Strategy On Human Resources For Health: Workforce 2030

Introduction In May 2014, the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA67.24 on…

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Scientists Use Stem Cells To Grow A BEATING Human Heart Muscle For The First Time Ever

Scientists have grown the first human heart muscle that functions just like an adult's would. …

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Gov’t Urged To Give Allowances For Trainees In Midwifery, Pediatric Nursing

Ghana : The Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR), an NGO, has urged government to provid…

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Nurses Can Play Greater Role In Improving Public Health, New Study

Nurses are the healthcare team members closest to patients, making them the best situated to recog…

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Uganda: Three Babies Die As Mulago Hospital Runs Out Of Oxygen

At least three babies have died due to lack of oxygen at Kawempe Referral Hospital, which is curre…

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NHIS Boss in Another Controversy, Ignores TSA, Moves to Invest N25bn in FGN Bonds

• Yusuf: Those complaining are corrupt • Denies yield meant to stockpile funds for Buh…

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The Scientism of Psychiatry By Sami Timimi, MD

Psychiatry likes to portray itself as a scientific discipline, and indeed there is a lot of useful…

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Optometrists To Offer 40,000 Children Free Eye Services

As part of activities to mark its 50th anniversary, the Nigerian Optometric Association (NOA) has …

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Experts Tackle FG on Family Planning Pledges

Experts have called on Nigerian government to honour pledges it made to ensure at least 27 in 100 …

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Scientists Discover Drug That Can Make Blood Poisonous To Mosquitoes

An “exciting” pill can make human blood poisonous to mosquitoes and kill them, a resea…

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RESEARCH: Ibuprofen Could Stop Alzheimers

You may have taken ibuprofen today, be it to ease a headache or alleviate back pain. But there …

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Oyewole Tomori, Eight Other Scientists Enlisted to Tackle Infectious Diseases

A Nigerian professor of Virology, Oyewale Tomori, and eight other scientists have been enlisted in…

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Study: Death Risk Increased With Two Blood Pressure Drugs

Scientists at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City, UT, found that i…

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Can You Use An Inhaler After The Expiration Date?

It is usually safe to use an albuterol sulfate inhaler beyond the expiry date listed on the device…

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@wellbeingafrica (WBFA), Liverpool School of Tropical Medicines Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) And @JNJNews Opens Life Saving Skills Laboratory In Kwara

Press Release: The Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson…

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Deprescribing Antipsychotics: New Algorithm

The third clinical practice guideline to be published in the series developed by the Deprescribing…

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Drug Abuse in the North Handiwork of Igbo People – Bayero University Lecturer, Muhammad

Dr. Bala Muhammad of the Faculty of Communication, Bayero University Kano, has accused Igbo drug m…

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‘30 Under Surveillance Over Lassa Fever Outbreak in Abia’

The Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Umuahia, Dr. Abali Chuku has disclosed that 30…

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WHO Issues New Guide on Tobacco

The World Health Organisation has unveiled new guidance on the role tobacco product regulation can…

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The Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) Gold Medal Prize 2018 For Life Sciences

The Council of the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) has instituted a prize which will be awarded …

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