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Who Revises Global Tuberculosis Etimate Up By 500,00

About 1,5 million people died in 2013 from TB, including 360,000 people who were HIV positive. T…

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Ebola: NMA Calls for Vigilance

The Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, yesterday, urged Nigerians to remain vigilant inspite of Mon…

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Conserving Blood During Surgery Safer Than Transfusion By Caroline Helwick

  . Restrictive Transfusion Strategy May Lower Infection Risk . Changes in Transfusion Pr…

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Rotary Announces US$ 8.4 Million In Grants To Fight Polio In Nigeria

  PRESS RELEASE   . Rotary announces US$ 8.4 million in grants to fight polio in N…

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TB's Even Worse Than We Thought, WHO Says

  A new examination of TB numbers shows there are more than 500,000 more cases globally …

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Nurses Elected to Institute of Medicine

Dr Stephanie Ferguson, Ph.D., RN, FAAN,Director of ICN’s Leadership for Change Programm…

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Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) Warns Members Against Illegal Partnership

THE Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has threatened to sanction its members who enter into any il…

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Ebola Took Its Toll On The Health Sector - NMA

IMMEDIATE past chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association in Cross River State, Dr. Callistus En…

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‘Nigeria has 10% of Global Maternal Deaths’

AN associate of the International Federation of Gynecologists and Obstetricians, Dr. Rafiu Ajiboye…

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Focus on Tertiary Care, Private Doctors Tell Teaching Hospital

DOCTORS under the aegis of the Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria…

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Scientists Restore Hearing In Noise-Deafened Mice

Scientists have restored the hearing of mice partly deafened by noise, using advanced tools to boo…

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Watch It, Children Also React To Drugs

Medicines are meant to cure. They are meant to relieve symptoms and bring succor to the user. When…

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Nigeria Medical Association to Stop Using Strikes As Bargaining Tool

The Nigeria Medical Association has promised to stop using strike as a bargaining tool when making…

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Man Walks Again After Nose Cells Repair His Severed Spinal Cord

Paralysed by knife attack, Fidyka is first person to recover from chronic injuries • Bulgar…

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WHO Sets January 2015 for Ebola Vaccine Trials in W’ Africa

Dr-Margaret-ChanSTILL in search of an effective and safe cure for the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), t…

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A Fatal Infection Is Levelling Off

The incidence of the potentially deadly bacterial infection known as Clostridium difficile doubled…

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The CDC's New Guidance For Ebola Care

  Guidance on Personal Protective Equipment To Be Used by Healthcare Workers During Managem…

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Paralyzed Man Walks Again After ‘Miracle’ Surgery

  Polish doctors used cells from patient's nose to heal spinal injury   A man …

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Impending Strike! Just Rumours - Health Officials

  Health officials in Abuja on Monday denied the rumour of an impending nationwide strike. …

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Brain Surgery, By Robot, Through the Cheek

For those most severely affected, treating epilepsy means drilling through the skull deep into the…

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