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Swiss Test GSK Ebola Vaccine In Some Volunteers Going To Africa

  Switzerland's drug regulator said on Tuesday it had approved the testing of an experi…

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Ebola May Have Existed For 23 Million Years

A family of viruses that Ebola belongs to may have existed over 20 million years ago, according to…

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The Medical Consultant Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) Advises Jonathan On Credentials Of Next Health Minister

…says health sector appointments shouldn’t be politicized The Medical Consultant As…

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FG to Recruit More Personnel for National Hospital

The Federal Government yesterday said it would employ more health professionals to enhance service…

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Lagos Doctors, State Government Head for Showdown

The bitter relationship between the Lagos State government and medical doctors under its employ is…

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Effective New Anti-Cancer Drug Shows Few Side Effects

A new drug, known as OTS964, can eradicate aggressive human lung cancers transplanted into mice, a…

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Senior Medical Staff to Commence Strike Oct 31

  The Senior Staff Association of University, Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes and Ass…

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Govt, JOHESU To Meet On Health Workers’ Strike

The Federal Government and the striking health workers are expected to meet this week to resolve t…

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New Hope For Potential Prostate Cancer Patients

  The only place in the Southeast offering the MRI-US image fusion technique is at the Univ…

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Clues To Genetics of Congenital Heart Defects Emerge From Down Syndrome Study

  The risk of AVSD is higher in children with Down syndrome. An atrioventricular septal def…

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Misconceptions, vaccine ban impede Pakistan's polio fight. By Henna Saeed

  A Pakistani health worker administers polio vaccination drops to a child in Peshawar. (Ph…

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Up-Dates On National Union Of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP) Strike

24th October, 2014.   All NAC/NEC Members, All State Council Chairmen/Secretaries, Al…

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Origins of Sex Discovered

Profound new discovery announced in Nature today by palaeontologist, Flinders University Professor…

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Grapefruit Extracts Show Promise In Treating Anaemia, Diabetes, Others

Recent studies by Nigerian and Indian researchers have demonstrated the many therapeutic uses of g…

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How Grapefruit Beats Anaemia, Obesity, Diabetes, by Researchers

Recent studies by Nigerian and Indian researchers have demonstrated the many therapeutic uses of g…

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Federal Government (FG) To Deploy 506 Volunteers to Ebola-Infested Countries

ABUJA — Federal Government    has given approval for the Nigeria Centre for Diseas…

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TB Kills 1.5m, Infects 9m In 2013 – WHO

The World Health Organisation, WHO, said Wednesday that nine million people developed tuberculosis…

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Ebola in New York: Doctor who treated patients in Africa tests POSITIVE for virus

  . Dr Craig Spencer, 33, who returned to the U.S. six days ago from Guinea, was admitted t…

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Researchers discover exactly how the bubonic plague spread so effectively - and say it could improve our handling of Ebola

  . Yersinia pestis bacteria causes bubonic plague . Cacteria hitchhike on immune cells i…

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Nigerian Hospitals Can Handle Most Conditions Taken Abroad, Says Expert

NIGERIAN hospitals have the equipment and expertise to treat most conditions taken abroad from the…

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