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Sleep Deprivation Accelerates Alzheimer’s Brain Damage – Study Suggests

Studying mice and people, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis hav…

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EHS GRADES Eyes Nigeria’s Oil Sector, Others

EHS GRADES International, a global environmental, health and safety organisation, has expanded int…

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Plateau’s Lassa Fever Outbreak Death Toll Hits Five

The Plateau State Commissioner for Health, Dr Kamshak Kuden, said on Sunday that the Lassa fever o…

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Makinde Flays Alleged Plan to Sell Adeoyo Hospital

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State, Mr Seyi Makinde, on Sunda…

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50 Years of Lassa Fever is Waiting for the Lion to Finish Yawning

In 1969, Lily Pinneo caught an infection while working as a nurse at Jos Mission Hospital in Jo…

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Taking Health Sector To The Next Level

By Kazeem Akintunde They were three programmes rolled into one. The launch of the National Strateg…

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Chemist Remanded Over Murder Through Botched Abortion

A Yaba Magistrates’ Court, on Thursday, remanded a 34-year-old chemist, Augustine Udemba,…

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Abia NDLEA Arrests 4 for illegal Production of Sedatives

State Commander, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Abia, Bamidele Akingbade, said that…

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Expert Urges Daily Intake Of Fruits To Reduce Chronic Diseases.

DR Ovo Ogbinaka, a medical officer at Central Hospital, Ughelli, says people who eat more fruits a…

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The Surgery to Remove the Lung Cancer Is On Hold - The Shutdown Is Forcing Workers to Delay Vital Medical Care

Federal government employees and contracted employees currently affected by the longest-running go…

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Doctor found dead in Benin Hotel

The Police in Edo on Thursday confirmed that a medical doctor, Dr Osasogie Ogbeide, was found dead…

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Kwara health Workers Suspend Strike Over Lassa Fever Outbreak

The Congress of the Coalition of Health Sector Unions, Kwara State branch, has suspended its indef…

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Water Shortage, Poor Electricity Supply Hits General Hospitals in FCT

Shortage of water, poor electricity supply among other challenges have crippled medical services i…

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NAFDAC: Warns of Cancerous Effects of Bleaching Creams

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says many skin whitening…

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Four Die of Lassa Fever in Plateau State

Four persons have died of Lassa fever in Plateau State, the Commissioner for Health, Kunde Deyin, …

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Dangerous Chemicals Found in Baby Diapers

A French health watchdog, Anses, on Wednesday issued a warning on the risks of several chemicals f…

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Ekiti Doctor Shines At World Angiology Awards

The research material of an Ekiti-born medical doctor in diabetics-related sickness has been ranke…

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Research: How your immune system uses chaos to prevent disease

New research, appearing in the journal Nature Communications, reveals a new mechanism that is at p…

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Council asks Graduate Pharmacists to Avoid Unethical Practices

The Pharmaceutical Council of Nigerian (PCN) on Friday inducted 138 pharmacy graduates of Igbinedi…

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FG, Global Fund in N21.7bn deal to tackle TB, malaria

The Federal Government has signed a health partnership agreement with the Global Fund worth N21.7b…

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