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Optometrists Task Govt on Preventive Eye Care, Educate Nigerians

The Nigerian Optometric Association (NOA) has warned that poor outdoor and prolonged near work activ…

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51 Cases of New Polio Variant Recorded in Nigeria, Says WHO

World Health Organisation (WHO) has said 51 cases of circulating Variant Polio Virus (cVPV2) have be…

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Nasarawa to Vaccinate Girls against Cervical Cancer

The Nasarawa State Government has announced plans to vaccinate girls between ages nine and 14 agains…

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Japa: Council Plans to Check Nurses Emigration

The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria says efforts are being made to curtail the ongoing emig…

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Nigeria Needs a Sustainable Solution to Resident Doctors' Strike

The nationwide strike embarked upon recently by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) …

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Benue NMA Threatens Strike Over Doctor’s Abduction

The Nigerian Medical Association, Benue State chapter, on Wednesday, called on government at all lev…

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Pfizer Seeks Stakeholders’ Collaboration to Fight Against Fake Medicines

Pfizer has sought collaboration with relevant stakeholders to promote good health and contain fake d…

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Reduce Quackery, Tax on Private Practitioners, Edo NMA Tells Obaseki

The Nigerian Medical Association, Edo State branch, yesterday, appealed to the state governor, Godwi…

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NAFDAC Tasks Players in Pharma Sector on Quality

The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Pr…

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Ebonyi Health Workers Urge USAID-IHP not to Withdraw Interventions

Health workers in Ebonyi State primary healthcare facilities, yesterday, pleaded with the United Sta…

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50 Medical Students, others, May Drop out of School as Fees Increase in Kano Varsity Bites Harder

The dream of Amina Ado (not her real name), a 300-level medical student of Bayero University, Kano, …

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NAFDAC, PCN Advocate Ethical Drug Distribution

The Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof. Moji Adeye…

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Hospital Urges Residents to Embrace Health Insurance

The Medical Director, General Hospital, Badagry, Lagos State, Dr Olatunde Bakare, on Sunday urged Ba…

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Traditional Medical Practitioners Get Registration Deadline

The Lagos State Government has issued a deadline for traditional medical practitioners in the state …

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Declare State of Emergency on Health, NMA Tells FG

Medical doctors under the auspices of the Nigerian Medical Association have urged the Federal Govern…

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UK Govt Accuses Striking Doctors of Harming Patients

Hospital doctors in England on Friday launched their latest walkout as the government said their str…

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Nigeria Ranks 4th in World’s Population of Medical Doctors – Expert

Prof. Kanu Nkanginieme, a Professor of Paediatrics from the University of Port Harcourt, says Nigeri…

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Resident Doctors Suspend Strike

Members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors on Friday suspended the strike they embarked…

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WHO Convenes First High-level Global Summit on Traditional Medicine

Ahead of African Traditional Medicine Day (ATMD) on August 31, the World Health Organisation (WHO) i…

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Vwaere’s Death: AHAPN Seeks Review of University Teaching Hospital Act

The Association of Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists of Nigeria (AHAPN) has called on Presiden…

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