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HIV/AIDS: Ondo Increases Service Points, Trains Officers to Fight Spread

Apparently determined to demonstrate its zero tolerance for HIV/AIDS spread among its people, the …

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Maintaining Your Manliness At 50+

Clocking age 50 is no easy task, never mind that you don’t have to do anything for the calen…

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Fertility Treatments Keep Multiple Births High

Fertility technology in the United States has a huge influence on the frequency of twins, triplets…

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Federal Ministry of Education: AIMLS or AMLSCN Equivalent to Bachelors Degree in Medical Laboratory Science

Federal Ministry of Education Evaluation and Accreditation Branch Tertiary Education Departmen…

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Surgeon banned until 2020 after prostitutes overdosed

A NEUROSURGEON responsible for the death of two prostitutes in cocaine-fuelled sex sessions has be…

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African Experts Discuss Need for Better Regulation of Medicine

In most African countries, pharmaceutal drugs are poorly regulated or not regulated at all, posing…

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Some defibrillators may not deliver shock, FDA warns

U.S. regulators have warned that some automated external defibrillators made by Philips Medical Sy…

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Hospital or Baby Factory? Shock Over 16 Pregnant Teenagers Rescued By Police

RECENT developments in Imo State seem to suggest that commercial pregnancy has become the next big…

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Psychiatrists Tackle Conduct Disorder Among Youth

MENTAL health professionals have said that conduct disorder is a serious behavioural and emotional…

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Brain Study Reveals How Men, Women Differ

A new brain connectivity study from Penn Medicine published today in the Proceedings of National A…

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Guide To Health Issues For Over-50s

Health issues become increasingly important after you turn 50. Recognising the possible signs of i…

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New Skills Are Imperative For Obstetricians

OBSTETRICIANS and gynaecologists have been called upon to acquire new skills if they must function…

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Resident Doctors Suspend Strike

The Association of Resident Doctors, University College Hospital, Ibadan chapter, on Tuesday suspe…

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Living With HIV? Eat Well To Stay Healthy

The air is still agog, so to say, with the activities marking the World AIDS Day, which comes up e…

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On The Trail Of Prostate Cancer

Does the patient have cancer of the prostate gland, commonly called prostate cancer? A question li…

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Can Your Hospital Save You?

I asked Chief Medical Directors (CMD), ‘Can your hospital save your life?’ Do you have…

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40% OF 6,300 PEOPLE CONTRACTING HIV DAILY ARE YOUTHS - UNFPA

No fewer than 40 per cent of the 6,300 people infected by the HIV daily are aged between 15 and 24…

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Gene Mutation for Excessive Alcohol Drinking Found

Researchers have discovered a gene that regulates alcohol consumption and when faulty can cause ex…

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Pharmacists want NASS to amend controversial section of National Health Bill

PHARMACISTS under the aegis of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) have again called on th…

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New Pharmacy Council Boss Promises To Sanitise Practice

THE newly appointed Registrar of the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN), Bruno Nwankwo, in his inau…

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