Medical News


‘Mercy Home’ For Cancer Patients, Relations At LUTH

The Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) District 404B Nigeria has built a complex for canc…

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Health Sector Witnesses Over 40 Strikes In 8 Months –Wogu

Barely nine months into the year, industrial unrest in the nation’s health sector has produc…

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‘Why Babies Must Breastfeed’

Head of Nutrition, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Chris Isokpunwu has described good nutrition as …

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Ebola Response Lethally Inadequate, Says MSF

"It is impossible to keep up with the sheer number of infected people pouring into our facili…

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Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Raises Fresh Ebola Alarm

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has raised alarm on the ill-preparedness of some states in …

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Doctors Leave Accident Victim To Die Over Ebola Scare

An accident victim was left to die at the Federal Medical Centre in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, when d…

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EBOLA: Suspected Kaduna Case Tests Negative

EBOLA: Suspected Kaduna Case Tests Negative   The teenage undergraduate in Kaduna  s…

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Ebola: Hit-And-Run Victim Abandoned In Bayelsa Hospital

  A woman described by the authorities of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yenagoa, Bay…

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We Can Contain Ebola in Nigeria: WHO

  * Rivers achieves 96 per cent contact coverage   The World Health Organisation (…

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Nurses Protest Non-Enforcement Of Court Ruling

  Nurses in their numbers took to the streets yesterday, in Abuja, to protest non-enforc…

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New Sickle Cell Test Could Be Lifesaver in Developing World

  A new low-cost, rapid blood test for sickle cell anemia could someday save the lives of t…

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CDC director raises Ebola alarm; another American doctor infected

  . American missionary doctor infected with Ebola in Liberia . Tom Frieden, the CDC dire…

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Turning Up In A Market, Ebola Patient Is Bundled Into An Ambulance

  . Shocking moment runaway Ebola patient is bundled into back of Monrovia ambulance aft…

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Ebola: Kaduna Records First Suspected Case

A student at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) has been put into isolation at the Ahmadu Bello Uni…

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FG: Doctors Residency Training Programme Not Satisfactory

The Federal Government on Tuesday said that the residency training programme for doctors in federa…

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4 Doctors, Pharmacist, Dentist, Nurse kidnapped in Rivers

Gunmen have abducted four medical doctors and three other health workers in Abua/Odual Local Gover…

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Health Council Seeks Control Of Bush Meat’s Importation

THE Federal Government and the 36 states have empowered government agencies to regulate the import…

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Healthcare Policy, A Shame -Atiku

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday in Owerri, the Imo State capital, described the h…

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Fashola Praises Health Workers

• Governor says disease has been checked  • State gets N200m from Fed Govt Lago…

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EVD NOT OVER YET BUT

EVD not over yet, but we are in control —Fashola Also, at a press briefing in Lagos y…

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