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Pharmacists Seek Cheaper Exchange Rate for Anti-Malaria Drugs

Pharmacists have identified Nigerians’ inability to afford anti-malaria drugs as a major fac…

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#JOHESUStrike2018: Senior Workers Caution Government on Strike

The Senior Staff Association of Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Research Institute and Associate…

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Join Your Peers at the World Health Professions Regulation Conference

Join your peers at World Health Professions Regulation Conference to discuss these topics and more…

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Paracetamol in Pregnancy Raises Children’s Risk of Attention Deficit Disorder, Autism by 30%

Pregnant women who take paracetamol are up to 30 per cent more likely to have children with attent…

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Antibiotics Cut Death Rates Among Infants in Poor Countries by 25%

To stem the rise in antibiotic resistance, researchers recommend that people only take the drugs a…

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Doctors Cure Seven Adult Patients of Sickle Cell Disease Using Stem Cells

Doctors at the University of Illinois Hospital have cured seven adult patients of sickle cell dise…

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Children Rescued From Lagos Baby Factory

Nigerian media report that 162 babies and children have been rescued from three illegal orphanages…

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#JOHESUStrike2018: FG, JOHESU Meeting Deadlocked

The meeting between the Federal Government and the striking Joint Health Sector Unions which laste…

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Nigerian Navy List of Successful Candidates for DSSC Course 25 Recruitment Exercise 2018

The Nigerian Navy wishes to inform the general public the candidates whose names appear in the lin…

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#JOHESUStrike2018: PSN Threatens ‘Vote of no Confidence’ on Health Minister

As the strike action embarked upon by the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) continues, the Pharma…

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Nigerian Govt Approves Licensing, Commercialisation of Anti-Sickle Cell Drug

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has given approval to the National Institute for Pharmaceutica…

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#JOHESUStrike2018: Notification of the Resumption of the Suspended Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) Strike Action In Lagos State

The Head of Service Public Service Office Alausa-Ikeja   NATIFICATION OF THE RESUMPTI…

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Certain Common Medications Tied To 30% Higher Dementia Risk, Study Finds

Many older adults know that long-term use of certain medications can negatively affect cognition a…

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#JOHESUStrike2018: UCTH Can Not Implement No Work, No Pay Policy – CMD

Chief Medical Director of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Professor Thomas …

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#JOHESUStrike2018: What We’re Doing to End Strike – Nigerian Government

The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole has alleged that the the Joint Health Sector Union, JOHESU, …

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Alternative Medicine Council Inducts Members

The yearly continuous professional development course for Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM)…

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Over 25% Pregnancies In Nigeria At Risk – AAFP

Association for the Advancement of Family Planning (AAFP) has said there is need to improve the he…

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WHO Calls for Additional Research to Ascertain Efficacy of Traditional Medicine Treatment

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says additional research needs to be made on traditional medic…

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Local Manufacturers Produce Only 30 % of Nation’s Medicine Needs

* NAFDAC, NAIP seek more commitments from govt, stakeholders to ensure national drug security &n…

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#JOHESUStrike2018: New Twist As @IsaacFAdewole Says There Was No Agreement Between FG And JOHESU

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Wednesday said the Federal Government had no agree…

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