Medical News


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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Local Plants For Piles Treatment Identified

NIGERIAN researchers have recommended regular consumption of special diet made predominantly with …

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WHO Issues travel Advicw on "Killer Virus" For Pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia

WORRIED about possible outbreak of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus…

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Fertility Therapy Not Associated With Long-Term Cardiovascular Disease

  Women who gave birth following fertility treatment had no long-term increased risk of dea…

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Doctors, Monarch Seek Stiffer Penalty For Quacks

  Medical doctors, on Tuesday, blamed the high rate of quackery in Nigeria’s health s…

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New Antibiotic That Attacks MRSA Found In Ocean Microbe

  A completely new and unusual antibiotic compound has been extracted from a marine microor…

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Hepatitis B Kills Faster Than AIDS – Expert

A medical practitioner, Dr. Joseph Onigbinde, has said that Hepatitis B virus kills faster than th…

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Scientists Seek to Rein In Diagnoses of Cancer

A group of experts advising the nation’s premier cancer research institution has recommended…

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Why Pate Resigned

  • Doctors, pharmacists differ on replacement   MORE reasons are emerging on…

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Coping With hHepatitis Epidemic

It is described as a ‘silent epidemic’ because most persons do not realize that they a…

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