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How To Tackle Babies’ Malnourishment

Many babies are malnourished. This condition affects their growth. Experts, think mothers need mor…

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Containing The Threat Of Malaria

Malaria is the number one killer disease in the world, especially in the tropics, and for the past…

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Survivors Of Childhood Cancer Have High-Risk Of Recurrent Stroke

Most people assume strokes only happen to octogenarians, but recent evidence suggests that survivo…

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21-Gene Recurrence Score And Receipt Of Chemotherapy In Patients With Breast Cancer

Use of the 21-gene recurrence test score was associated with lower chemotherapy use in high-risk p…

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Framework For Value-Based Pricing Of Cancer Drugs

At a time when cancer drug prices are rising rapidly, an innovative new study provides the framewo…

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Practitioners Advised On Manufacturing Standards

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has urged the National A…

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Meningitis Jab: Infant Paracetamol Will Help Baby Avoid Fever

Parents are being advised to give paracetamol to babies who have been given the new meningitis B v…

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Health Workers Wasting Expensive Malaria Drugs in Nigeria

Health providers trained to perform malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) are still prescribing val…

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Breast Cancer Relapse Could Be Predicted With New Blood Test

A test that identifies genetic information in the blood picks up sensitive amounts of DNA that can…

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Antibiotic Use May Raise Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

The greater the number of antibiotic prescriptions an individual has each year, the higher their r…

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Blood Test Detects Cancer Relapse

Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research in London found traces of breast cancer eight month…

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Brain Cells Burn Out in Parkinsons Disease

Brain cells in Parkinson's disease exhaust themselves and die prematurely, burning out like an…

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Nigeria Loses 500,000 Children To Malnutrition Yearly, Says UNICEF

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), on Thursday, expressed worry that despite the huge natu…

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For Vaccines, Timing is Everything

Last year, scientists launched a trial of an experimental vaccine against Ebola in Guinea. On Frid…

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Promising Target For New Drugs Found in Pancreatic Cancer Cells

Pancreatic cancer is extremely deadly and often has a poor prognosis. Ranked as the fourth deadlie…

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St Gerald’s Hospital Pleads With Kaduna Over N15m Debt

The management of Saint Gerald’s Catholic Hospital in Kaduna has appealed to Governor Nasir …

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Electronic Trigger Reduces Delays in Evaluation For Cancer Diagnosis

 Electronic triggers designed to search for key data, developed by researchers at Baylor Coll…

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FG Spent Over N198bn On Medical Trips in 2014

Public officials who travelled abroad for medical care last year cost Nigeria nearly N198.95 billi…

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Maternal and Child Survival Initiative Saves Millions of Lives

The United States Agency for International Development today released a new report showing that it…

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Seattle Children’s Suburban Clinic Warns of Infection Risk

A suburban clinic of Seattle Children’s Hospital is warning patients they could have been ex…

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