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WHO/UNAIDS Unveil New Standards To Improve Adolescent Care

The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS have launched new global standards to help countrie…

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Fight Hypertension, Nigerians Told

Nigerians have been urged to stop hypertension, otherwise known as high blood pressure (HBP), befo…

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Nigeria Calls for More Cancer Awareness

No fewer than 500 people were screened for cancer in Lagos by the Committee Encouraging Corporate …

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Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Reopens IVF Clinic

The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, has revived its Assisted Reproductive Cl…

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No New Ebola In West Africa – WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said no new Ebola infections were reported in West…

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UN Partners Gov Ayade’s Wife To End HIV Mother To Child Transmission

In its renewed effort to totally eradicate the Human Immune Virus (HIV), particularly mother to ch…

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World Egg Day: Why You Should Eat Egg

Every second Friday in October is World Egg Day and Nigeria is one of the seven countries in Afric…

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Lagos Offers Free Screening For Cancer, Diabetes, Hypertension

Worried by the increasing cases of sudden death from non-communicable diseases such as heart failu…

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House Wants National Policy to Combat Hepatitis

In a bid to halt the silent epidemic being caused by Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), the House of Represe…

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Ebola: Calabar Hospital Quarantines 15 Patients •Doctor, Nurses Under Watch •FG Sends Team to UCTH

Fifteen persons have been quarantined at the accident and emergency ward of the University of Cala…

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House of Reps Members Intervenes on AKTH ARD Strike

Five members of the House of Representatives from Kano, Jigawa and Zamfara States were in the hosp…

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Resident Doctors Sports Festival Gets Underway Today

The inaugural edition of the FCT chapter of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD-FCT) Sports F…

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Helping Inunduh To Succeed At FMC Makurdi

Half a year is a short time to make assessment of achievement in office but for Dr Peteru Inunduh,…

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Elujoba, Iwu, Others Urge NASS to Pass Traditional Medicine Bill

Determined to develop herbal medicines as vital sources of food, nutrition and health management, …

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Island Breeze Unveils New Health Products

  TIRTA Ayu V-Spa, the Traditional Health V-Spa recognized in Indonesia for comprehensive i…

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South-East Summit Harps on Universal Health Coverage

  The need to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is currently a global development pri…

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Don Tasks Pharmacists on Safe Use of Drugs

A Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State,…

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The Many Challenges of Health Insurance in Nigeria, by Nnamani

Novo Health Africa Ltd, a firm accredited by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) with the …

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Medical Guild Provides Free Screening, Surgeries Ahead of 2015 AGM, Scientific Conference

The frontline body of government doctors in Lagos State, the Medical Guild, will begin medical scr…

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52% of Nigerian Children are Stunted, Wasted

An estimated 52 per cent of children in Nigeria, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), E…

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