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Nurses, Doctors Differ on NMCN Leadership

Mixed reactions have continued to trail the recent Federal Government agreement with the medical w…

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NGO, FCT Community Battle Malaria

Results of random medical tests recently conducted on 100 residents of Zaki Biyu community in Jabi…

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Delivery Room Guidelines Improve Outcomes for Preemies

  Use of new evidence-based delivery room guidelines was associated with significantly impr…

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Nigeria Will No Longer Participate In DV-2015 Lottery Program- US

The United States’ Diversity Visa Lottery program will no longer be open to Nigerians, the U…

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Test Could Identify Which Prostate Cancers Require Treatment

The level of expression of three genes associated with aging can be used to predict whether seemin…

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Beyond Malaria, Mosquito Can Give You Dengue Fever

In our part of the world, the mosquito buzz is a familiar, though hateful, tune that we hear rathe…

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Play Safe, Avoid Oral Cancer

When it comes to being responsible — by that I mean using condoms during sex, many will take…

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Drugs to stop agony of Arthritis: experts make breakthrough in research

  . SCIENTISTS have isolated the protein responsible for causing arthritis.   They…

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AIDS Vaccine Candidate Appears to Completely Clear Virus From the Body in SIV cases - HIV Form of the Vaccine to be Developed

An HIV/AIDS vaccine candidate developed by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University a…

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Nuclear Plants 'Do Not Raise Child Cancer Risk'

Experts looked at data on 10,000 children diagnosed under five between 1962 and 2007, and where th…

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Lawmakers Caution Doctors Against Derogatory Words on Patients

 LAGOS State House of Assembly, LSHA, has called on doctors and other health workers in the s…

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NIGERIA, GERMANY SIGN MOU ON POLIO ERADICATION

   Nigeria and Germany on Thursday in Abuja signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)…

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Helper Cells Trigger Potent Responses to HIV

  A major new finding that will significantly advance efforts to create the world'…

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‘Simulator Could Reduce Birth Mortality Rates in Developing Nations’

  NORWEGIAN designers created the devices with the aim of reducing the number of newborn ba…

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AIDS Vaccine Candidate Gives Hope

An HIV/AIDS vaccine candidate developed by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University a…

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Breath Tests Could Be Used To Diagnose Lung Cancer

Collecting samples of exhaled breath from people at a high risk of lung cancer could be a cheap an…

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Doctor in Court for Alleged Certificate Forgery

A  doctor, employed by Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, Ogbor Hill in Aba, Abia State, Peter I…

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Hospitals Hit By Dearth Of Medical Experts

There is an indication that many hospitals are having a hard time coping with the dearth of medica…

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Womb Cancer Link to Diet, Exercise and Possibly Coffee

Almost half of cases of womb cancer in the UK - about 3,700 a year - could be prevented through ke…

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Ado Mohammed, NPHCDA Boss, wins 2013 Public Administrator Award

The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, Dr. Ado Muhammad,…

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