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Reducing Environmental Pollution Will Prevent 70, 000 Annual Deaths In Nigeria – WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has adviced that if Nigeria put measures to reduce climate pol…

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Plight of Intern Pharmacists: Two Case Studies

After 5 years of undergraduate training, fresh pharmacy graduates from schools of pharmacy in Nige…

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NMA Seek Implementation of 15% Budgetary Allocation to Health Sector

National President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr Lawrence Obembe, has demanded imp…

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Diabetes Kills One Person Every 6 Seconds – WHO

With one third of adults and two thirds of adolescents insufficiently active, the World Health Org…

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New UNFPA Report on Midwifery Workforce in the Arab Region

A report released on 11 November by UNFPA (Arab States Regional Office) analyses the situation of …

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Ebonyi State Nigerian Optometric Association World Sight Day Report

The Ebonyi State Nigerian Optometric Association marked the 2015 World Sight Day with a series of …

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Kebbi Records 392 Cases of Measles

Acting Chairman of the Kebbi State Primary Health Care Development Agency (PHCDA), Alhaji Faruku W…

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Foundation Urges Gov’t to Prioritize Neonatal Health Care

The LittleBigSouls International Charitable Foundation has called on governments at all levels in …

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N9bn Measles Vaccination Campaign Starts Nov 21

A nationwide campaign gets underway to vaccinate some 39 million children aged under five years ag…

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Vet Medical Docs Urged to Adhere to Ethics of Profession

UMUDIKE-NEWLY graduated Doctors 'Of Veterinary Medicine, DVM, of the Michael Okpara University…

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‘WHO’s 2020 Health for all, a Mirage Without Change of Unhealthy Behaviours – SCIENTISTS

  With Nigeria topping the      Sahara African countries with highest burden…

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Your Life in Their Hands – Anaesthetists in Owerri

This week Anaesthetists from all over Nigeria are gathered in Owerri for their annual conference. …

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Experts Worry Over Growing Incidence of Sickle Cell Anaemia Among New Born Babies

The growing incidence of sickle cell disease among new born babies is posing a big challenge to me…

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Pfizer Rewards Outstanding Pharmacists

Pfizer Nigeria Plc has honoured pharmacists who distinguished themselves in community health care …

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40,099 Children Suffer Severe Malnutrition in Sokoto, Says UNICEF

The Chief of Field Office of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Sokoto State, Mr…

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UNTH Doctors Call off Strike

Respite came the way of patients yesterday, as the Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, Universit…

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FG Flags Off Measles Immunisation Campaign In 19 Northern States

The federal government is to begin its measles immunisation campaign across the 19 northern states…

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Diabetic Blindness Could be Reversed with Eye Injection

Injecting the drug ranibizumab into the eyes of diabetics improved their sight and prevented furth…

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Guinea’s last Ebola Patient Released from Care Centre

The last known Ebola patient in Guinea has recovered and been released from a treatment centre in …

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Ahmed Yakasai Emerges New President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria

A FELLOW of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Fellow of Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy (PSN), Nigeri…

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