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WHO Optimistic on Africa’s COVID-19 Fight in 2022, Urges Sustained Vigilance

Almost two years after Africa identified its first case of COVID-19, World Health Organisation (WHO)…

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Novel Fast-Spreading HIV Variant Accelerates Immune System Decline — UNAIDS

A more transmissible and damaging sub-type of HIV, has been isolated, according to the Joint United …

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Military Hospital Advocates Cultural Preservation In Africa

Major General Joseph Orokpo, retired, has stressed the need for the preservation of Africa’s cultura…

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Reps Throw Out Bill Barring Doctors, Others from Going on Strike

The House of Representatives on Wednesday forced a member, Simon Atigwe (Peoples Democratic Party/En…

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Nigerian Diaspora Pharmaceutical Group Launches Peer Review-Journal

The Nigerian Association of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Scientists in the Americans (NAPPSA), has…

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SYNLAB Launches Diagnostics Laboratory in DELSUTH

Nigeria’s leading medical laboratory diagnostic (pathology) service provider, SYNLAB, recently launc…

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Doctors Embark On Two-Day Strike over Assault on Personnel in Ondo

There was uproar at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH), Akure, yesterda…

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Expert Seeks Abstinence from Cancer-Induced Lifestyles

The Chairman, Nigerian Cancer Society, Ekiti State branch, Dr Abidemi Omonisi, has called on Nigeria…

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Using Lagos PHCs, General Hospitals before LASUTH

With good intent, every generation has reasons for taking certain humanitarian decisions for the bet…

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LASUTH CMD Advocates Cancer Awareness, Screening

The  Chief Medical Director of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Prof. Adetokunbo…

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Regulate Online Drug Adverts, Reps Tell APCON, NAFDAC, Others

The House of Representatives has called on the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria to liais…

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‘Indiscriminate Use of Contraceptive Could Increase Maternal Mortality Rate’

The Chairman of Chidicon Medical Research Centre, Owerri, Imo State, Prof. Philip Njemanze has warne…

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Health Workers Need Communication Skills, Time Management – Reps

The House of Representatives has called for retraining of workers in the health sector on interperso…

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New HIV Variant Doubles Immune System Decline Rate - UNAIDS

Newly published research from the Netherlands has revealed the existence of a more transmissible and…

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FG Receives 2m Doses of J&J Vaccine from EU as NCDC Confirms 36 New Infections

Federal Government, yesterday, received two million doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine, do…

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Lassa fever: NCDC Registers 40 Deaths, Four Health Workers Infected In January

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), registered 40 Lassa fever-related deaths in January, …

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PROPER PLACEMENT: UGONSA Appreciates Stakeholders, Pencils DNS Franca Okafor For GANV

The University Graduates of Nursing Science Association (UGONSA) has shown appreciation to stakehold…

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PSN Calls on Govt to Boost Manufacturing of Local Medicines

Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has called on governments at all levels and other stakeholde…

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COVID-19: NCDC Registers 35 Additional Infections

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), said it registered 35 additional confirmed cases of C…

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Diasporan Pharmaceutical Group Unveils Peer Review Journal

Nigerian Association of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Scientists in the Americas has unveiled a pee…

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