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Ovarian Cancer Patients Can Have Kids With Tissue Transplant

Cancer patients who have ovarian tissue removed and stored for later transplantation have a chance…

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NAFDAC SummEx Prosponed

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) hereby notifies all Stakeho…

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UCTH Shuts Emergency Ward Over Ebola Scare

The accident and emergency ward of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital has been shut down …

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Odd News: Young Boy With Stomach Pains & Suspected Tumour Is Found To Have A Dead Foetus Inside Him

  . Four-year-old boy developed stomach pains and went to hospital . Scans revealed he ha…

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Nigerian Health Sector:A Fledging Phenomenon

The Nigerian health sector is one which had been embroiled in one controversy or the other over th…

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Tolerant Immune System May be a Risk Factor for Some Cancers

A new study suggests it is possible to predict the likelihood of developing certain cancers using …

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CDC: Breastfeeding Support Improves, But it Could be Better

It is often touted as one of the "most natural" things in the world, but many new mother…

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FG Targets Higher Contraceptive Prevalence Rate

The Federal Government has assured it would lift the nation’s contraceptive prevalence rate,…

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3 Scientists Share Nobel Medicine Prize for New Tools to Kill Parasites

Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for disco…

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National Health Insurance Scheme Disclaimer

In The Performance of its statutory function as industry regulators, the National Health Insurance…

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N7.5m Fraud Allegation Rocks Edo NMA

Crisis is currently brewing in the Edo State chapter of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) over al…

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Buhari, Saraki, Advocate for Health MDGs

Nigerian First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari, wishes to see increased global, multi-sector partnerships t…

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WHO Calls For Policies to Favour Older Persons

To mark this year’s International Day of Older Persons on October 1, The world Health Organi…

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NIMR Launches Cancer Research Center

Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) has establishing the first ever public-private biome…

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Malnutrition Deaths Can be Prevented –Medical Practitioner

A medical practitioner, Dr. Tuyi Mebawondu has decried the high rate of death of Nigerian children…

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Good News on Polio Eradication

Nigeria’s exit from the list of polio-endemic countries is a big achievement for which the g…

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The Next Ebola (A Stitch in Time…)

Consider a threat that is explosive, without bombs; that can pile up IDPs faster than any civil wa…

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Nigeria: Regular Blood Pressure Check Saves Lives

To commemorate this year's World Heart Day, on September 29, management of Vanguard Media Ltd,…

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Provide Insurance for Poor Nigerians, NGO Tells Buhari

The Convener, Arise Women Medical Outreach, Mrs. Siju Iluyomade, has urged the Federal Government …

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Exploring New Fertility Treatments (1)

Last week this column discussed the new concept of trophectoderm biopsy as part of the presentatio…

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