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Lessons from the Predicaments of Dr.Abraham Ariyo

A few days ago, the social media was awash with the news of a certain medical practitioner, Dr Abr…

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Study Casts Doubt On Yogurt’s Health Benefits — But Don’t Give Up On It Just Yet

  Yogurt has long worn a health halo, but a new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutr…

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Commemorating World Malaria Day By Mustapha Saddiq

  World Malaria Day (WMD) is commemorated every year on 25 April to recognises globa…

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Child Malaria Vaccine: Final Trials Bring Hope

  There is no licensed vaccine against malaria anywhere in the world at present. Final clin…

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Hippocratic Oaf: My First Day as a Doctor

  . I was technically a real physician the moment I walked through the hospital doors, but …

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Why OAU Introduced Online Distance Learning - Prof Asubiojo

  INTERVIEW   Professor Bode Asubiojo, the director of the Centre f…

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Harisson Sakilla: Liberia’s first Ebola Survivor

  Harisson Sakilla was the first person to be admitted to an Ebola Treatment Unit in Liberi…

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Study: Acetaminophen reduces not only pain, but pleasure, too

  . Subjects taking acetaminophen reacted less strongly to both pleasant and unpleasant pho…

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Sperm 'May Hold Clues To Autism'

  . Link is found between father's DNA and symptoms . DNA in men's sperm linked t…

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Gout diet: What's allowed, what's not

  Gout, a painful form of arthritis, occurs when high levels of uric acid in the blood c…

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For Nurses, IT Poised To Be Game Changer

  . RNs need to take control of their future, put themselves at forefront of IT strategy…

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The health sector we need under Buhari – Oluwole, MDCAN President

  The President, Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), Dr Steven O…

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WHO: Caesarean Sections Should Only Be Performed When Medically Necessary

Caesarean section is one of the most common surgeries in the world, with rates continuing to rise,…

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EXCLUSIVE: Revealed, the terminally ill man set to be first to undergo the world's first full HEAD transplant Pioneered by Doctor branded 'Nuts'

  . Valery Spiridonov says he is ready to put his trust in Dr Sergio Canavero . 30-year-o…

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Universal Health Coverage A Mirage If...............

Complement of the New Year. After my last outing - Rape of Medical Laboratory Science the Bane of …

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Ex-NMA President Calls on Buhari to Improve Health Sector

  Former president of the Nigerian Medical Association  (NMA), Dr Osahon Enabulele, ha…

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Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases - Stopping the Spread (2)

  Lecture Delivered at the 2014 Health Week ceremony of the University of Lagos by Prof. Ak…

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Ebola virus diagnostic tool developed by physician who worked in Liberia

  Adam C. Levine, M.D., an emergency medicine physician at Rhode Island Hospital and The Mi…

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Lab Scientists Urge Buhari To Appoint Competent Hands For Health Ministry

  THE Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN) has joined Nigerians …

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Press Statement by the Nigerian Medical Students Association on the 2015 Presidential Elections

The Secretariat of the Nigerian Medical Students’ Association hereby wishes to congratulate …

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