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8 UNIMAID Nursing School Students Die In Auto Crash

Eight students of School of Nursing and University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) died in a…

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Breast Cancer Drug Hope From Leukaemia Research

These types of tumours cannot be treated with the targeted drugs which have hugely improved surviv…

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Doctors Offer Victims free Medical Treatment

The Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria has directed all its membe…

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NMA Urges FG To Solve Crisis In Health Sector

The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has challenged federal government to urgently address the cr…

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Furore over Doctor of Pharmacy Degree in Nigerian Varsities

The recent turn around by the National Universities Commission (NUC) over the approval of the Doct…

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Why smoking is more deadly and addictive than it was 50 years ago: Charity reveals the underhand tactics tobacco companies now use to make sure we’re hooked

  . Chemicals added to cigarettes to ensure addiction, make smoke easier to inhale, reduce …

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Gambia: NDMA and UNFPA Train Health Workers On MISP

The National Disaster Management Agency, NDMA, with support from UNFPA and the Ministry of Health …

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Gambia: Serrekunda Health Centre Nurses Trial Deferred

The two-count charges pressed against three of the nurses posted at the Serrekunda Health Centre a…

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Adolescent Psychiatry Needs More Attention —Experts

Experts in the treatment of mental disorder have called on government and Nigerians to support chi…

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Paediatrician Laments Morphine Scarcity

A consultant paediatrician with St. Nicholas Hospital, Lagos, Dr. Adeseye Akinsete, has lamented t…

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Doctors, Pharmacists Battle Over Titles, Appointments

Appointments of officers into choice positions in the nation’s public health institutions ma…

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Functional Sewage System Lacking In Our Cities - EHORCON

The Environmenta; Health Officer's Registration Council of Nigeria has lamented that no city i…

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Yobe Places Medical Students On Salary, Recruits 52 Nurses

Yobe State Governor Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam yesterday approved the immediate recruitment of 52 nurse…

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Cure for HIV is a 'major scientific priority'

  Huge advancements have taken place in HIV treatment and prevention over the past 10 years…

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FG Steps Up Efforts to Sensitize The Public on New Yellow Card Regime

To this end, the Federal Ministry of Health organised a one-day sensitization meeting of stakehold…

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FG Inaugurates Committee on Nigerian Public Health Training Initiative and The National Steering Committee on The Nigerian Health Workforce Registry

The Minister of Health, Prof.C.O.Onyebuchi Chukwu has inaugurated Committee on Nigerian Public Hea…

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World Hepatitis Day

World Hepatitis Day, 28 July 2014 Think again Every year on 28 July, WHO and partners mark Wor…

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Organisation trains Midwives On Family Planning

The Women Friendly initiative (WFI), a non-governmental organization, in Kuje area council, of the…

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Health Sector's Rot: NMA gives FG 14-day Ultimatum

Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) yesterday gave Federal Government 14-days ultimatum to meet up …

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Phamacists Council Gets Registrar

The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) has appointed Nurudeen Mohammed as its Registrar.The appo…

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