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Medical Consultants Threaten Legal Action Over Yayale Ahmed C’ttee Report

The Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) has threatened legal acti…

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Common Gene Variant That Affects Cholesterol May Raise Heart Risk

People who carry a common mutation in a gene called SCARB1 - that regulates cholesterol - may have…

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Groundbreaking Treatment Uses Herpes To Combat Skin Cancer

A new treatment may be in the cards for patients with skin cancer - in the form of a genetically e…

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Community Pharmacists Plead For Loans

National Chairman, Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, ACPN, Olufemi Adebayo, has cal…

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Delta Health Professionals Accuse Perm Sec Of Intimidation

Health professionals in Delta state under the state chapter of the National Union of Allied Health…

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Jonathan Commissions Defence Intelligence Dialysis Centre

• Nominates Justice Bello as FCT judge • Senate passes desertification bill into law …

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Jonathan commissions Defence Agency Dialysis Centre

  President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday commissioned the newly completed Dialysis Centre a…

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Ekiti Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Suspends Strike

The Ekiti State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) yesterday called off the strike e…

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National Hospital Workers Begin Strike Over Pay Grade

Health workers at National Hospital, Abuja, began a three-day warning strike on Monday to press th…

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The Breakthrough That Could Stop Diabetics Going Blind

  . Scientists discover mechanism that causes damage to the eyes . Scientists have found …

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Crises’ll Not End in Health Sector... —NMA

Worried by the indefinite strike embarked on by Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUA…

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When Doctors’ Errors Become Fatal

In saner climes, the natural thing to do when a patient dies or suffers greater bodily harm due to…

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Misconduct: PCN Delists Two Pharmacists

  TWO pharmacists, Pharm. Ogbonnaya Emmanuel Nduka and Clifford Osonduagwuike Ogbonna, have b…

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Family Physicians Worry Over Dearth of Medical Doctors

Family Physicians have decried the dearth of medical doctors in the country, lamenting the ratio o…

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FG Lifts Embargo on Employment of Resident Doctors

THE Federal Government has lifted embargo on employment of resident doctors to federal tertiary he…

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Doctors, Nurses Begin Strike in Katsina

Doctors, nurses and midwives have withdrawn their services in protest against the failure of the K…

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Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Knocks Striking Health Workers

The Nigerian Medical Association on Sunday accused striking health workers in federal hospitals ac…

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Health Sector 2015 Salary Survey

Be Better Consulting, a team which thrives at creating solutions for small businesses and for thos…

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Nepal Earthquakes: How Medics Race To Avert A Health Crisis

  Three weeks, two earthquakes. More than 8,000 deaths and 17,000 injuries. Nearly 3 mil…

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CMD of LUTH Tasks Graduands on Training, Professionalism

The Chief Medical Director (CMD), Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, Pro…

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