Medical News


Jigawa Varsity To Start Medicine Sept –Dean

The Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University Dutse, Jigawa State, Professor Usman Ahmed, yest…

Read More
Jigawa Upgrades General Hospital

Jigawa State Governor Muhammadu Badaru Abubakar has approved the upgrade of Kazaure General Hospit…

Read More
Resident Doctors Strike Untimely - Awute

The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Mr Linus Awute, has condemned the ongoing str…

Read More
Kano Approves 1.5M for PostBasic Psychiatric Training for Five Nurses

The Kano state executive council of meeting held on 5th august 2015 has appraised the request for …

Read More
How Quacks Help Nigerians Go Blind

•They prescribe glasses, not minding underlying diseases –Experts   As experts…

Read More
WHO: Africa Advances Toward a Polio-free Continent

11 August 2015 marks 1 year since the last wild polio case was detected on the entire African cont…

Read More
Chinese Foreign Minister Lauds China-Liberia Cooperation in Fight Against Ebola

Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, has commended Liberia’s fight against the Ebola virus and…

Read More
Potential Obesity Gene Discovered

For the first time, scientists have uncovered a direct link between a gene and fat production in t…

Read More
Skipping Not Captured in 2015 Budget —UCH CMD

The Federal Government has said skipping on the consolidated medical salary structure (CONMESS) by…

Read More
Shorter Course of High-Dose Radiation Therapy Better For Breast Cancer Patients

For women with early-stage breast cancer, a shorter course of radiation therapy at higher doses ma…

Read More
Existing Class of Drugs May Halt Ebola, Marburg Viruses

There is an urgent need to develop vaccines and antiviral drugs against Ebola virus and its cousin…

Read More
Teens With Depression, Bipolar at Greater Risk of Heart Disease

Major depression and bipolar disorder put teenagers at greater risk for heart disease and should b…

Read More
CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE (CKD): Nigerians Worry Over Increase In Kidney Failure Disease

Chronic kidney failure describes the gradual loss of kidney function; these result in dangerous le…

Read More
MAUTEC to Confer Doctor of Letters on Ali Chiroma

The Governing Council of Modibbo Adama University of Technology (MAUTEC), Yola, will be confer a D…

Read More
New Cases Of Bird Flu Discovered In Abia, Enugu

  The National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI), Vom, said on Tuesday that new cases…

Read More
NMA To Honour Saraki At NEC Meeting In Ilorin

The Nigerian Medical Association will honor the Senate President,Dr Bukola Saraki as part of activ…

Read More
Crisis Looms Over Plans To Sell LUTH, UCH, ABUTH, Others

IF the Federal Government goes ahead with plans it has so far made, apex public health institution…

Read More
Afe Babalola Decries Doctors’ Incessant Strike, Builds Teaching Hospital

Chief Afe BabalolaUCH CMD urges striking doctors to return   PATIENTS are not the only ca…

Read More
‘Why Nigerians’ Life Expectancy is Falling’

Crowded Oshodi Market in NigeriaA medical expert, Dr. Okebaram Chukwudi, has attributed decline in…

Read More
Nigeria Has Only 1,000 Physiotherapists, Say Experts

 THE level of wastages and inadequacies in the field of rehabilitation medicine has been brou…

Read More