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Sleep Disorder: A Silent Killer

How likely are you to doze off or fall asleep in the following situtations, in contrast to feeling…

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Ebola virus in Africa outbreak is a new strain

  The Ebola virus that has killed scores of people in Guinea in 2014 is a new strain _ evid…

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French Lab Loses SARS Vials

  A French lab has lost more than 2,000 vials containing fragments of the deadly SARS virus…

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Kogi To Boost Nursing Education

The Kogi State government says it will provide necessary facilities in all its schools of nursing …

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Ebola: Kogi Places Health Workers On Alert

The Kogi State government said at the weekend that it has placed its health workers on alert in vi…

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Zamfara Has Only 20 Qualified Doctors, Says Rep

A member of the House of Representatives, Ibrahim Shehu Gusau, has claimed that there are only 10 …

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Doctor Nabbed Writing JAMB For Wife

 Jigawa State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) at the weekend…

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Asokoro Hospital Performs First Laparoscopic Surgery

History was made on April 1, 2014 at Asokoro District Hospital when a 46-year-old female with larg…

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Towards Universal Health Coverage In Nigeria

  There is renewed confidence in the management and programmes of the nation’s health…

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Coughs, Sneezes Float Farther Than You Think

The next time you feel a sneeze coming on, raise your elbow to cover up that multiphase turbulent …

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JAMB: Medical Doctor Arrested For Alleged Impersonation, Malpractice

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Jigawa, on Sunday, said it arrested a medi…

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5 myths about the ER, debunked

. Dr. Anwar Osborne says the emergency room can resemble some famous medical TV shows. . Visitin…

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Senate Passes HIV/AIDS Anti-Discrimination Bill

The Senate on Thursday passed a bill seeking to prevent the stigmatisation of and discrimination a…

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE SHOULD NOT CREATE OFFICE OF SURGEON GENERAL – AKINTAYO

Olumide Akintayo is the National President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN).  Akint…

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Ebola: FG Puts Ports health Officials On High Alert

In its determination to deploy all available apparatus to prevent outbreak of Ebola infection in N…

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Nigeria Under Ebola Threat, Says FG

The Federal Government on Wednesday admitted that Nigeria was in danger with the rate at which the…

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Cancer Cells May Respond To Mechanical Force

The push and pull of physical force can cause profound changes in the behavior of a cell. Two stud…

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Chemo Might Give Certain Lung Cancer Patients An Edge

••• Cancer specialists have been unsure about how best to treat certain patients …

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Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria Flays Creation of Office of Surgeon General

The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has once again flayed the attempts to create the Offic…

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ABIA HEALTH WORKERS CRISIS: VP Expelled

UMUAHIA—THE crisis rocking Abia State chapter of Medical and Health Workers’ Union of …

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