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Research: Why Putting On Weight Causes Men To Get 'Beer Bellies' And Women To Become Pear-Shaped

Men's brains are programmed to send fat directly towards the stomach region. But too much can …

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NAFDAC Destroys N9.6 Billion Fake Drugs

* Govt pledges quality products in Nigeria   The National Agency for Foods Drugs Administ…

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280 Snakebite Victims Flood Jos Teaching Hospital

Many children, aged between seven and 10 years, are currently being treated for snake bites in rab…

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Medical Expert Urges Regular Breast Checkup

A consultant surgeon and oncologist, Doctor Chiemelu Emegoakor, has advised women to regularly exa…

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Giving Succour to People with Eye Problems

The eye, unarguably, remains one of the most vital and delicate organs of the human body because h…

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Doctors’ Strike: Consultants, Others Provide Services In Abuja

As the resident doctors’ strike in the country bites harder yesterday, consultants, NYSC doc…

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Recession: NNPC Turns 52 Hospitals, Clinics To Commercial Use

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday declared plans to turn its 52 hospita…

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S.O.N Portharcourt Student Nurses Escape Decapitation, Electrocution, Death as Rain Causes Devastation

Yesterday evening, our attention was drawn to the school of nursing Portharcourt, in Rivers state.…

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FG, States Spend 4.3% of N13.5tr Budgets on Health

Less than five percent of the N13.5 trillion combined budgets of the federal and state governments…

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2.3m HIV Patients in Nigeria not on Treatment —DON

No fewer than 2.3 million Nigerians living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus are not on any fo…

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FG To Launch Free Healthcare Programme In Niger Delta – Minister

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani, says the Federal Government will soon &…

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Unilorin Committed To Producing High Quality Pharmacists – VC

Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Ilorin, says Unilorin is committed to…

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Association of Radiographers of Nigeria Gets New President

The Association of Radiographers of Nigeria over the weekend got a new president in the person of …

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Election! Association of Medical Laboratory Technician and Assistant of Nigeria (ameltan) Lagos State Branch

This is to inform all members that state election will be holding in the month of march 2017 &nb…

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Resident Doctors’ Strike Tops Agenda at National Council on Health Meeting

Medical doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) are set for showdown tal…

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OAUTHC Recorded 14 Successful Open Heart Surgeries In 2016 – CMD

The Chief Medical Director of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, (OAUTHC), Ile-…

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Kill Fake Drug Peddlers, Says Obiano

The Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, on Monday recommended death sentence for fake drug pedd…

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Lassa Fever kills Four in Plateau

The Commissioner for Health in Plateau State, Dr. Kunden Deyin, said the state recorded four death…

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Why we are on Warning Strike – NARD

The National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has urged Nigerians to understand that the ong…

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House of Reps Orders Closure of Unregistered Pharmaceutical Outlets

Worried by the nefarious activities of unqualified individuals in the trade and distribution of dr…

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