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New Blood Pressure Recommendations Could Change The Way Millions Are Treated By Craig Bowron

  New recommendations on blood pressure screening from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Fo…

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Ebola Beds Prevented 40,000 Deaths

The global response to the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone helped avert 40,000 deaths but if aid had …

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Adopt Healthier Dietary, Lifestyle Habits Nigerians Told

With low consumption of fruits and vegetables among Nigerians, health experts have urged Nigerians…

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Changing The Face of HIV/AIDS: Protecting our Girls

There  are 1.8 billion young people (males and females between the ages of 10 and 24) in the …

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Day Abuja Turned Pink Against Cancer

All over the world, October is the breast cancer awareness month and the 5th day in the month is t…

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Sokoto Govt, Bill Gates to Spend N494m on Primary Healthcare

Sokoto State government, Bill and Melinda Gates and Dangote Foundations have contributed N494 mill…

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LUTH Restarts IVF at Affordable Rate

Three decades after it created and delivered the first test tube baby in West and East Africa, the…

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PHN, HSDF, Cambridge University, Others In New Partnership To Address Capacity Gaps In Health Sector

A new private sector initiative has emerged in the health sector to tackle capacity gaps in the in…

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SFH Calls For Rationale Treatment Of Malaria

The Society for Family Health (SFH) has called for a stop in the wastage of anti-malarials, Artemi…

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Network Of People Living With HIV/AIDS Gets New Leadership

The fifth national delegates of people living with HIV forum has endorsed Mr Victor Omoshehin as N…

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Global Efforts To Eradicate Polio Suffers Setback With New Case In Laos

World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday announced that Laos has suffered a case of vaccine- deri…

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Ministerial Nominees Need Mental Health Screening, Says WHO chief

A Professor of Psychiatry and Director, World Health Organisation (WHO) Centre for Research and Tr…

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Healthcare Leadership Academy to Tackle Medical Tourism

As part of efforts to tackle capacity gaps in the health sector and develop the next generation of…

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Noise Can Endanger Health, Says Expert

The Chief Medical Officer of Karu General Hospital, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dr Ola…

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Benue State Teaching Hospital Lacks Adequate Personnel

Chief Medical Director of the Benue State Teaching Hospital (BSUTH) in Makurdi, Prof. Orkurga Malu…

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JOHESU Shuts Down NAUTH Nnewi Patients Evacuated

WORKERS under Joint Health Sector Unions (JO­HESU) comprising five unions at the Anambra State…

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Heavy Pharmaceutical Products Importation Threatens Local Production’

The heavy importation  of pharmaceutical products have been affecting local production in the…

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‘There are More Stroke Deaths Than HIV, Malaria Combined’

Dr Biodun Ogungbo is a brain and spine surgeon and a director of Stroke Action, Nigeria, a non-gov…

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Cesarean Delivery Won’t harm Kids’ Health –Study

In a study of more than 5,000 children, Australian researchers said they found that cesarean secti…

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Medical Gowns, Gloves Often Source of Contamination –Study

Health care workers often contaminate their skin and clothing when they remove their medical gowns…

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