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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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Missing Nigerian Doctor Found Safe 60 Miles Away From Houston Home

  A young Nigerian doctor, Dr. Fehintola Omidele, 25, went missing on Sunday after she was …

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Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Condemns Casualisation of Doctors

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has condemned the practice of employing doctors as casual w…

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Anas Investigation Leads To Arrest of Two Government Employees Over Food Aid Scam

Thousands of children in northern Ghana suffer from acute malnutrition. Many die.   Despi…

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Nigerian Soldier Tests Positive To Ebola

  A Nigerian soldier on the United Nations’ peace mission in Liberia has tested posit…

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Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) Seals 57 Medicine Stores In Taraba

NO fewer than 57 premises of patent drugs and pharmaceutical stores operating in Taraba state have…

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Interview With Belgian Microbiologist Peter Piot On Helping discover the Ebola virus And The Worlds Response

•  Scientist says WHO took too long to deal with Ebola •  Calls American app…

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Bridging The Midwife Gap

Recent induction ceremony of 30 midwifery students in Lagos, again, underscores the need to meet t…

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Ebola Booster Vaccine Starts First Trials in Oxford

Scientists at Oxford University have launched the first clinical tests of a new Ebola vaccine appr…

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Ebola Global Death Toll Rises - WHO

The Death toll from the Ebola epidemic has risen to 6, 070 out of 17,145 cases as of November 30, …

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Have You Signed the Letter by PSN to NUC for Approval of Pharm D

We need every Pharmacists's support for the approval of Pharm D by NUC!    Help …

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The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM): Free online course on Ebola

  The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is launching its first free onlin…

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JOHESU Monitoring Unit Enforces Strike Action In Lagos State Today

The Lagos State Monitoring team of JOHESU made up of the NANNM Chairman Onkebody and other membe…

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Lengthy Surgery Increases Blood Clot Risk

A new study published online has reported that the risk of developing blood clots appears to incre…

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Breakthrough: Good Gut Bacteria 'Highly Effective' Against Malaria Transmission

Malaria was the cause of around 627,000 deaths worldwide in 2012, with 90% of these deaths occurri…

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Health Workers Strike Fails to Paralyze Hospitals

The one month old strike embarked by the members of Joint Health Staff Unions (JOHESU) may have fa…

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How Nigeria Can End Overseas’ Trip for Medical Treatment, by Diaspora Doctors

A GROUP of specialist Nigerian doctors practising overseas have said that one of the surest ways t…

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‘Granting JOHESU’s Demand is Encouraging Quackery’

Prof. Afekhibe Omoti is the Chairman, Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Edo State Branch and a Pr…

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