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FG Set to Make Health Insurance Compulsory for Employers

The National Assembly is working on reforming the National Health Insurance Scheme Act, 2004, with…

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NAFDAC Warns Pharmacists Against Fake Drugs

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in Akwa Ibom State has c…

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Common Antibiotics Linked with Miscarriage in Early Pregnancy

A study of pregnant women shows some commonly prescribed classes of antibiotics to be associated w…

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Nurses, Midwives Decry Poor State of Nigeria’s Health Facilities

The President of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Abdulrafiu Adeni…

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Gunmen kill Female Medical Doctor in Rivers

A medical doctor, Dr. Florence Onua, has been shot dead by gunmen around Government Area in Port H…

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Lagos State Government Health Service Commission Recruitment Examination Internal Memo

I am directed to inform you that recruitment written examination exercise for:   MEDICAL …

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Two Engaged Doctors Found In Penthouse With Throats Slit

Two doctors were found dead in their Boston penthouse with their throats cut on Friday night, acco…

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Agency investigates officers for allegedly shooting doctor’s car

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Bayelsa Command, says it is investigating th…

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Surgeons beg FG to include heart defects in NHIS

A Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, …

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Miscarriage Risk May Be Higher With Use Of Common Antibiotics

A new study suggests that guidelines for antibiotic use during early pregnancy might need to be re…

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Men Have Bigger Brains! But Dont Worry Ladies, Yours Are MUCH More Efficient

It is a standing joke among the bravest of men – that their other halves have smaller brains…

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Message from the West African College of Surgeons Presidents Desk

I am very delighted to address all Fellows in this maiden edition of From the President&rsquo…

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Polytechnic Student Abandons her Baby in the Hospital

  A student of Crown Polytechnic Odo Ado Ekiti Ayodeji Oluwatosin abandoned her baby boy at…

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Prostate Enlargement, Urinary Problems, Infections and Prostatitis

The Prostate gland is the organ that helps in the production of simen and it stays beneath the bla…

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Dogara Settles Patients’ N3.76m Bills at ATBTH

SPEAKER of the House of Representatives Mr Yakubu Dogara on Friday spent N3.76 million to settle b…

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Kogi Govt. Threatens to Terminate Appointment of Workers that Participate in Doctors’ Strike

The Kogi Government on Friday threatened to terminate the appointment of any of its staff under it…

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Why Picking Your Nose And Eating It Could Be Good For Your Health

It is one of the disgusting habits parents try in vain to stop their children from doing in public…

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Couples Surprise Pregnancy After Fathers Vasectomy HEALS Itself

After having a son and daughter, Lucy and Nev Evans decided their family was complete. Mr Evans, 3…

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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Gave Everyone On The PLANET An X-Rays Worth Of Radiation

Every person on Earth got the equivalent of an extra x-ray from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a …

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Osibanjo’s Wife Unveils First Breast and Gynaecology Centre in Lagos

The wife of the Vice President, Mrs Oludalopo Osinbajo, has unveiled first state-of-the-art Breast…

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