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Obiano to Build Doctors Quarters in 37 General Hospitals

.Onitsha, Enugwu-ukwu, Ekwulobia hospitals to be upgraded for comprehensive healthcare services …

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NACA Laments Low Funding, Stigmatization at World AIDS Day

• WHO urges new deal for  people living with HIV   AS Nigeria and the rest of t…

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Govt Asks Health Workers to End Strike

Abuja — THE leadership of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) has been called upon to cal…

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WORLD AIDS DAY

THE Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) pandemic has att…

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Another Health Workers’ Strike

Nigeria is witnessing yet another round of industrial action in her restive health sector. Industr…

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Doctors’ Protest: Lagos Denies Owing Medical Personnel

The Lagos State Government yesterday reiterated that it has always paid the salaries of all its em…

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‘Over 20,000 Living With HIV/AIDS in Lagos’

No fewer than 20,000 people are living with HIV and AIDS in Lagos State, the Chief Executive Offic…

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Malaria-Carrying Mosquitoes Sequenced

Scientists have sequenced the genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquito species from around the world. Anop…

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KANO BOMB BLAST: JOHESU Suspend Strike to Save Lives

The leadership of the joint health workers union has directed its members to return to duty to sav…

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Doctors Protest Non Payment of Salaries in Lagos

Resident doctors yesterday staged a peaceful protest over the non-payment of their two months&rsqu…

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JOHESU: Nigerian Health Care Services Grinds to a Halt on Monday 1st December

Gloom and uneasy has befallen the health sector in Nigeria as JOHESU's Monday 1st deadline loo…

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Reminder: Rescheduled Mandatory Continuing Professional Development Programme (MCPDP) Edo State

  The Mandatory Continuing Professional Development Programme (MCPDP) Edo State sheduled…

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Bladder cancer: 'Exciting' drug breakthrough. By James Gallagher

  A drug which makes a wide range of cancers more vulnerable to the body's immune syste…

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New substance overcomes treatment-resistance in leukemia

  Haematologists from Goethe University Frankfurt, working with a Russian pharmaceutical co…

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First Human Ebola Vaccine Trial Shows It Seems to Work

  The first test of an Ebola vaccine in people shows it's safe and appears to be workin…

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NAFDAC Workers Suspend Stike

Health workers at the National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control have suspended …

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Ebola Vaccine' Promising' Say Scientists After Human Trial

The first human trial of an experimental vaccine against Ebola suggests that it is safe and may he…

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Board Inducts 900 Health Records Officers

The Health Records Officers Registration Board of Nigerian has inducted 900 qualified health recor…

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Kogi, US Nurses Provide Free Medicare

Office of the First Lady of Kogi State in partnership with a United States based medical team, the…

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Know Your Blood Pressure to Prevent Kidney Failure

The incidence of kidney failure is on the rise globally. In Nigeria, the situation is dire. Expert…

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