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Cautious Optimism as President Signs Health Bill

… NGOs, experts laud assent   Doctors and health workers in Nige­ria may prote…

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JOHESU Strike: Government Indifference, Callous, Injurious, Says NLC

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it is worried by what it called the indifference and in…

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Ekiti Health Workers Back Out of Industrial Action

Ado Ekiti—The Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, Ekiti State chapter has backed out of the …

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Public Hospitals Have Biggest Malaria Drug Stock

Public health facilities have more artemisinin-combination therapy (ACT)  than private ones f…

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Health workers’ Strike Continues Nationwide

A victim of the twin suicide blasts at Kano Central Mosque in the accident and emergency ward of t…

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Jonathan Finally Signs National Health Bill Into Law

President Goodluck Jonathan has finally signed the National Health Bill into law, BusinessDay inve…

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Assenting to Health bill Different from Harmonized Version Would Aggravate Health Sector Crisis - AMLSN President

The National president of the Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria has reacted …

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Doctors Urge JOHESU to End Strike

Doctors in Gombe have appealed to striking health workers under the auspices of the Joint Health S…

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Kaduna Doctors Seek End to Health Workers’ Strike

Doctors in Kaduna State have appealed to the federal government to resolve its impasse with health…

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NMA Wants Psychiatric Test For People Seeking Elective Offices

Jos THE National president of the Nigeria medical Association, NMA, Dr. Kayode Obembe has recommen…

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Strike: Pharmacists Urge NLC, TUC to Solidarise With JOHESU

Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, has carpeted the Federal government over perceived lukewar…

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Toughest breast cancer may have met its match: Protein inhibitor makes cell susceptible to chemotherapy

  Triple-negative breast cancer is as bad as it sounds. The cells that form these tumors la…

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Here Is What You Need to Know About Stroke

  Stroke is an acute, dramatic loss of function of one or more parts of the body, which occ…

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Most Elderly Breast Cancer Patients Receive Unnecessary Radiation

In 2004, a randomized clinical trial supported the omission of radiation treatment in elderly fema…

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Cuban Doctor Felix Baez Returns Home After Ebola Treatment

A Cuban doctor who recovered from Ebola after receiving experimental treatment in Switzerland has …

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Nurse ‘Stabbed To Death’

A nurse has been allegedly stabbed to death by a co-tenant in Aba, Abia State.   It was l…

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2015: NMA Seeks Psychiatric Test for Politicians

The Nigerian Medical Association has recommended that each of the politicians seeking political of…

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Doctors’ Group Urges Establishment of Specialist Heart Centre

A group of Nigerian doctors practising in the United Kingdom, Germany and America, under the aegis…

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Institute Decries Lack of Research on Major Diseases

The West African Infectious Diseases Institute (WAIDI) has expressed concern over lack of research…

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The Emergency in the Health Sector

Like most Nigerian elections, pundits and political analysts will opine that the upcoming 2015 nat…

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