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Concerns About Anaesthesia’s Impact On The Brain

As pediatric specialists become increasingly aware that surgical anesthesia may have lasting effec…

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Drug May Aid in Alcohol Dependence, but Safety Concerns Linger

Varenicline (Chantix, Pfizer Inc), currently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…

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Malaria's Deadly Grip Revealed: Severe Malaria Breakthrough

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Seattle Biomedical Research Ins…

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Women Have Better Memory Recall Than Men

New research from McMaster University suggests women can remember faces better than men, in part b…

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Discrimination Against Pharmacists, Others, Counterproductive –PSN President

The President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Mr. Olumide Akintayo, in this interview with SAM…

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Device From Israeli Start-Up Gives the Visually Impaired a Way to Read

JERUSALEM — Liat Negrin, an Israeli who has been visually impaired since childhood, walked i…

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Polio Virus Discovered in Sewage From Israel

The Polio virus has been found in a sewage sample from Israel for the first time since 2002, the W…

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Heart Health Matters to Your Brain

People suffering from type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are at an increased risk of…

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Position of NAUTH CMD not Vacant, says Board

  THE management and board of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi ha…

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Medical Council Intensifies Campaign to Enshrine Professionalism

  THE Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria said that the suspension placed on the College …

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WAPCP Intensifies campaign for Recognition of Fellows

  THE West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists (WAPCP) has called on countries with…

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New Smallpox Vaccine Recommended for Approval in EU

The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has reco…

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Govt Shuts Eight Hospitals Over Alleged Deficient Operations

  Delta State Ministry of Health has sealed up over eight private health institutions in As…

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Curing Cancer Or 'Selling Hope' To The Vulnerable?

Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been raised to send British patients to a doctor in America w…

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Doctors Call For Global Consensus On Diagnosis Of Death

There needs to be international agreement on when and how death is diagnosed, two leading doctors …

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Community Pharmacists Seek Urgent Review of NHIS scope

President Goodluck Jonathan has been called upon to urgently review the scope of the National Heal…

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HIV Inner Shell Structure Revealed

Researchers have for the first time unravelled the complex structure of the inner protein shell of…

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Nigerians Patronise Private-Owned Hospitals Over Govt – POLL

A new weekly poll results by NOI Polls shows 79 percent of Nigerians do not have access to health …

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New Flu Strains Prompt Review of Current Research, Call to Redouble Flu Fight

Despite numerous medical advances over the past century, the flu -- a seasonal rite of passage for…

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H7N9 Bird Flu Drug Resistance Concern

Drug resistance has been detected in patients infected with the new bird flu that has emerged in C…

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