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UBA Donates Incubators To Teaching Hospitals

As part of concerted efforts to reduce child mortality in the country, UBA Foundation, the corpora…

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Lymphoma Risk Varies for Celiac Disease Patients

  Celiac disease patients with ongoing intestinal damage have a higher risk for lymphoma th…

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Signs, Symptoms Of Heart Defects

-  Many babies who are born with atrial septal defects have no signs or symptoms. However, as…

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Live Right, Prevent Heart Defects In Babies

Open the pages of newspapers these days, and you are likely to find beleaguered parents — mo…

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Coping With Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is a type of cancer originating from the breast tissue, most commonly from the inner…

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Complex Anticancer Compound Developed

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have achieved the first efficient chemical synthesis …

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79% Nigerians Have No Access to Health Insurance - Poll

THE health insurance scheme is yet to gain acceptance in the country, as latest weekly poll result…

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FMC Ido-Ekiti Establishes Community Dental Centres

The Federal Medical Centre, Ido-Ekiti in Ido/Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State has received…

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Fresh Strike Looms in Health Sector

Health workers in Nigeria, under the aegis of Joint Health Sector Unions, have asked the Minister …

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Doctors Scrutinising Health Implications of Flood Disasters

IN their bid to ameliorate the impact of an impending flood disaster in the country, doctors, unde…

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Rare Eye Disease Leaves People Without an Iris

  You may never have heard of aniridia, a genetic disorder that robs people of their vision…

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Helping The Deaf To ‘See’ And ‘Feel’ Sound

  Why have so few innovations for deaf people actually made it to market? Jonathan Kalan di…

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NPMCN Grants Accreditation to AKTH Pathology Department

National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria has granted full Accreditation to Pathology Depar…

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Botulism Threat Found in Infant Formula Ingredients

One of the world’s leading suppliers of dairy products said Saturday that a type of bacteria…

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First Aid For Snakebite Could Come In A Nasal Spray

  Treating a paralyzing snakebite could one day be as easy as sniffing a nasal spray, accor…

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Baby Whose Life Support Was Switched Off For 20 MINUTES Stuns Doctors By Continuing To Breathe...And Goes On To Make An Amazing Recovery

  . Harrison Ellmer contracted meningitis when he was three-weeks-old . Doctors believed …

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Nordica Pioneers Three-dimensional Ultrasound in West Africa

NIGERIA based Nordica Fertility Centre is pioneering the use of modern approach to ultrasound diag…

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NMA Set to Battle Quacks in Bauchi

THE Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Bauchi Thursday vowed to flush out quacks in medical pro…

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Experts Alert on Rising Cases of Liver Cancer in Nigeria

MEDICAL DOCTORS under the aegis of the Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology in Nigeria (SOG…

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2013: World Breastfeeding Week

This year's World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) theme, 'BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT: CLOSE TO MOTHERS…

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