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Reconsider Your Stance: Resident Doctors Appeal to CMD Federal Teaching Hospital Ido Ekiti

The Association of Resident Doctors at the Federal teaching hosptial Ido Ekiti have appealed to th…

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Study Shows Dose of Vaccine Protects Monkeys From Ebola

  Last week, the Lancet medical journal published a study showing a vaccine distributed in …

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Ekiti FMC CMD Begs Striking Doctors To Return To Work

The Chief Medical Director, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, Dr. Majekodunmi Ayodele, has app…

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Medical Centre Seeks Intervention in Doctors’ Strike

AN appeal has gone out to all concerned Nigerians to as a matter of urgency use whatever influence…

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Mother And Child Hospitals Selected As WHO Research Centres

The World Health Organisation has chosen Mother and Child Hospitals in Akure and Ondo as research …

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Fake Foreign Doctor In Gombe Hospital

The Dental and Medical Council of Nigeria has warned owners of private clinics/hospitals to desist…

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Maternal Monday Campaign Launches this World Breastfeeding Week

The Wellbeing Foundation Africa, founded by Her Excellency Mrs. Toyin Saraki – the Internati…

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NAFDAC Discovers Factory Producing Fake Can Products In Lagos

  The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), on Thursday sa…

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Ovarian Cancer Not as Fatal as Previously Thought, study Finds

Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer deaths among women in the US, according to…

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Poor Thinking Skills Linked To Greater Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke

Individuals with poor executive function - a set of thinking skills related to planning, problem-s…

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Could Sleeping On Ones Side Reduce Risk of Alzheimers?

Although the findings are yet to be tested in humans, a study suggests sleeping posture affects ho…

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Like hospitals, health colleges Also Deserve Adequate Funding —Arogundade

A renowned Professor of Radiology at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Mr. Rasheed Arogundade has em…

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Female Doctors Seek Collaboration Against Gender-Based Violence

THE Medical Women Association of Nigeria (MWAN) called for collaboration from relevant stakeholder…

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Students Tackle Hypertension, Diabetes

• A female student checking the blood pressure of another student   As part of their…

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Cancer Survival "Lagging in England"

A patient receiving an intravenous dose of anticancer drugs from a syringe   England'…

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Benefits of Weight Loss Surgery Diminished After 5 years

Five years after weight loss surgery, obese patients may regain many of the pounds they initially …

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‘Black Men Are 200% More Likely To Develop Prostate Cancer Than Whites’

BLACK MEN are at twice the risk of developing prostate cancer than their white peers, experts have…

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Pharmacy Students Offer Free Services to 10,000 Persons

Pharmacy students of the University of Benin have offered free diabetic treatment in an exercise t…

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Enugu Moves to Encourage Doctors in Rural Areas

THE Enugu State government has announced its intention to give financial incentive to medical doct…

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Doctors Demand Security Over Kidnapping

Doctors have demanded police protection for doctors responding to on-call duties or emergencies be…

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