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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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78 Pharmacists Take Oath Of Practice

• The graduands after taking the oath   The Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), last …

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Vaccine, Immunization Disclosures Focus of Halifax Medical Conference

Canada's doctors stopped short of advocating for mandatory vaccinations for children Wednesday…

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Nigeria Has Only 39 Orthodontists, Says NAO

• 50% of population have poorly arranged teeth • Association begins three-day 9th annu…

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Pfizer Harps on Improved Doctor-Patient Relation

PfizerWith the increasing emphasis on scientific basis and discoveries of medical technologies and…

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Ebola Virus Survives in Wastewater, Researchers Find

THE latest discovery by a group of microbial risk-assessment and virology researchers suggests tha…

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Scientists Develop Therapies To Protect Humans From Ebola virus

• Sierra Leone celebrates eradication of EVD • WHO launches guidance on premature babi…

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Nine Health Symptoms Men Should Never Ignore

Rushing to the toilet in the night could be a sign of an enlarged prostate or prostate cancer, Men…

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Firms Raise Awareness on Quality Water for Lab Analysis

With water being the most used reagent in any laboratory analysis, experts have called for the nee…

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Children Threatened By Malnutrition

About 400,000 Nigerian children die of malnutrition yearly   With 1.7 million children se…

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Unpaid Salaries: NIMR Dismisses Workers’ Claim

The disagreement between the management of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) and i…

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Nigerian Hospital Live-Tweet an Operation

The National Hospital, Abuja, recently took twitter by storm by live-tweeting a whole in the heart…

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Organisation Assures Nigerians of Better Healthcare

A non governmental organisation, Avon Healthcare Ltd (Avon HMO) has assured Nigerians of its dedic…

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Impersonation: MDCN to Verify Doctors in FG Employ

RIPPLES created by the discovery of a fake doc­tor, Martins Ugwu, who worked in the Federal Mi…

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Government Should Provide Anti-Shock Garment for Hospitals

The maternal mortality rate in Nigeria is still alarming, but if the Federal Government provides a…

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