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Immunisation Exercise Helps in Preventing Measles

Experts have recommended regular immunisation to ward off attacks of measles among children.Descri…

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Breastfeeding Best for Newborn Babies – CMD

The Chief Medical Director (CMD), Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, Prof. …

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Educate Nursing Mothers on Exclusive Breastfeeding, Says NSN

The Lagos State Chairman of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria, Dr Oluwatosin Adu, has called on the…

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Study: What are the Causes of Mental Illness?

Although the exact cause of most mental illnesses is not known, it is becoming clear through resea…

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Plant-Based Diet May Prevent Diabetes - Study

Researchers from the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in B…

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Appendicitis Can Give Right Abdominal, Navel Pain - Physician

A medical practitioner with a private hospital in Warri, Dr. Ovo Samiel, has advised people with p…

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Response against Poisoning in Nigeria

What are poisons? The Pharmaceutical Codex 1979 stated that any substance, which by its chemical…

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Herbal ‘Cures’ for Multi-Drug Resistant Typhoid Fever

SeveralL studies have identified plants that could be effectively used singly or in combination to…

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Diarrhoea In Infant: Dealing With It One Step At A Time

Baby Yomi is a one-year old toddler who was brought to hospital by his mum because his stools had …

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Expert Cautions Parents on Cannabis Oil for ASD Patients

A consultant child and adolescence psychiatrist at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo St…

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Urgency Addiction and Mental Health

It is very important to establish a preliminary point that urgency itself is not a problem since t…

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Ephraim Terkula, NAFDAC Worker, Down with Liver Disease, Needs N30m to Survive

A 44-year-old middle-level worker of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Cont…

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Why you should be Aware of Your Family History on Mental Illness – Part 1

We all know having a mental illness can be worrisome. Of optimal worry is also if someone in your …

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Expert Puts Hepatitis B Prevalence in Nasarawa at 14%

A medical expert, Dr Bamidele Folorunsho, has put the prevalence of Hepatitis B in Nasarawa State …

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Men, Beliefs Hinder Family Planning

Government has identified beliefs and men as parts of the cogs in the wheels in ensuring complianc…

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Teenage Girls Hospitalised with Kidney Failure after Doing 1,000 Squat Challenges

A pair of teenage girls were rushed to hospital with kidney damage after a three hour squatting ma…

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'I'm On My Way For My Induction Now!' Newly-crowned Miss England, 23, Swaps Her Tiara For A Stethoscope As She Starts Her New Job As A Junior Doctor After Winning The Top Prize

'I'm on my way for my induction now!' Newly-crowned Miss England, 23, swaps her tiara …

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Tattoos, Big Risk of Contracting Hepatitis – Doctor

A consultant endocrinologist at the Akure annex of the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hos…

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Mental Capital Predicts Organisational Profitability

We are told that our century is the jet age and that robots may take over major business operation…

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Furore over Avastin Injection, Treatment for Cancers, Loss of Sight

In recent times, the use of Avastin Injection has been shrouded in controversy. There are conflict…

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