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Midwife Recruitment Twitter Chat - Work With MSF in the Field!

  Midwives and midwifery students are invited to join Doctors Without Borders/Méd…

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Five Billion People 'Have No Access To Safe Surgery'

  Two-thirds of the world's population have no access to safe and affordable surgery, a…

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Scientists Announce Final Trial Results Of The World’s Most Advanced Malaria Vaccine

  . Researchers have tested a promising vaccine for malaria.   The first malaria v…

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Gunmen Abduct Another Medical Doctor in Rivers State

Directory Another medical doctor has been abducted by unknown gunmen in Rivers State. Dr Samuel Am…

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First DIY Test For HIV Goes On Sale In UK: Self-testing Equipment Has A 99.7% Accuracy

  . The 99.7 per cent accurate BioSure HIV Self Test enables people to test themselv…

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Malaria vaccine: Scientists Express Hope Despite Trial Results

The first malaria vaccine candidate (RTS,S/AS01) to reach phase 3 clinical testing is partially ef…

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Pharmacists Seek Minister’s Intervention on FEC’s Approval of Doctorate Programme

AS part of efforts to improve pharmacy education in Nigeria, pharmacists under the aegis of the Ph…

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World Immunization Week 2015 24th -30th April

  World Immunization Week (WIW) is marked in the last week of April (24-30) and aims at …

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Ondo Medical Varsity Gets NUC Accreditation

  THE National Universities Commission (NUC) has formally recognized the Ondo State Univers…

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Medical Laboratory Scientists Oppose Against Privatisation of Public Hospitals

IN the wake of on-going Public Private Partnership (PPP) plans embarked upon to manage public hosp…

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Major Asthma Breakthrough As Scientists Discover Root Cause Of The Condition

  . Say a new treatment is less than 5 years away . Newly identified protein in the airwa…

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No Outbreak of Cholera in Delta – DTSG

ASABA — Delta State Ministry of Health, yesterday, denied online media report of an outbreak…

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Diabetes Drug May Not Guard Against Pancreatic Cancer

Despite evidence that has suggested the diabetes drug metformin might have potential as a cancer f…

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Health Record Keeping Should Be Taught in Universities – HRORBN Registrar

Mohammed Ibrahim Mami is the registrar of the Health Records Officers Registration Board of Nigeri…

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Above 40? Screen Regularly For Cancer

Did you know that at least 26 women die of cervical cancer each day in Nigeria? Indeed, not many p…

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Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy Holds Education Summit

In a bit to proffer solution toward better pharmacy practice in Nigeria, The Nigeria Academy of Ph…

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Minister Of Health To Nigerians: Unidentified Disease Outbreak Not Infectious

Health The Minister of State for Health, Mr. Fidelis Nwankwo has debunked the rumours of unidentif…

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No Case of Ebola at LUTH, Says CMD

The Management of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi- Araba, on Monday refuted cla…

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Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) to Resume Strike

The strike action that was suspended by the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) on March 2, may li…

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Health Minister Need Not Be A Doctor

The incoming Federal Government could appoint seasoned manager from any discipline to head the Fed…

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