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Classifying Diseases to Map How Humans Live, Die

There are renewed efforts to classify diseases and to map how humans live and die.   Acco…

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Challenges of Tackling Prescription Medicines’ Abuse, Other Psychoactive Substances, by NAFDAC

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has expressed concerns a…

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HMO Seeks Lasting Solutions to Affordable, Accessible, Quality Healthcare

Health Maintenance Organisation (HMO), Hygeia has called on stakeholders to create solutions to th…

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75% of Sickle Cell Births in Nigeria Don’t See Fifth Birthday – Group

The Sickle Cell Support Network, an NGO, says Nigeria records about 150,000 sickle cell births ann…

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Drug Abuse: Pharmacists Decry ‘Unorganised’ Distribution System

Members of the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists have said that unorganized drug di…

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Are Toothpaste And Soap Making You Resistant To Antibiotics? Chemical In Everyday Toiletry Stops Infections Responding To Drugs

Soaps and toothpastes may be behind the antibiotic-resistance crisis, new research suggests. Tricl…

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Child Health: Morphine Is Not Superior To Ibuprofen For Managing Childrens Pain Following Minor Orthopedic Surgery

Oral morphine versus ibuprofen administered at home for postoperative orthopaedic pain in children…

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Irregular Salaries, Poor Infrastructure, Staffing Mar Primary Healthcare Delivery in Plateau

Grace Badung was lying on a mat, her baby close to her. The officer-in-charge of Kerke primary hea…

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NHIS Executive Secretary in Fresh Trouble Over N25billion ‘Investment’

Less than four months after his controversial reinstatement, the Executive Secretary of the Nation…

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Drugs are Poison, Pharmacy Postgraduate College Warns

The West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists, Kwara/Kogi zone, has warned against indiscri…

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150,000 Nigerian Children Born with Sickle Cells Disease Annually – Don

Professor Aliyu Babadoko, Consultant Hematologist with the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospit…

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United Nations International Children Emergency Fund Laments High Infant Mortality

The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund has called on the relevant authorities in…

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Gene Signature and Early Diagnosis of TB

Researchers have identified a gene signature in the bloodstream that could determine whether a per…

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Arthritis Patients Taking Painkillers Have Higher Chance of Developing Heart Failure

Millions of osteoarthritis patients are a nearly quarter more likely to develop heart disease beca…

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100,000 Children Lack Access to Polio Vaccines — Minister

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, says the number of children who lack access to polio …

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One Doctor Dies in Kogi, 3 Nurses Slump Over Unpaid Salaries

It was a dark Monday at the Kogi State Specialist Hospital Lokoja as the Head of Department of Int…

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10 Dead as Cholera Hits Niger State

The Secretary of the Bida Local Government Area in Niger State, Suleiman Sheshi, confirmed on Mond…

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WHO Declares Video Game Addiction a ‘Mental Disorder’

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has tagged compulsive video gaming as a mental health conditio…

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Humans Near Regrowing Limbs

* Gene therapy raises hope of paralysed people moving again   The dream of regrowing huma…

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Sincerity of Purpose, Political will Panacea to Drug Abuse — YAKASAI

The President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, Pharm. Ahmed Yakasai has identified s…

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