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Afe Babalola Canvasses Teaching of Anatomy in Schools

Eminent lawyer Are Afe Babalola has advocated the teaching of anatomy in primary and secondary sch…

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Hypertension Cases Rose by 47.4% in 40 Years, Says WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported a 47.4 per cent rise in blood pressure measuremen…

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Don’t Reduce Health Budget, Minister Begs N’Assembly

A Head of the presentation of the 2017 budget by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assemb…

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Senate Probes Secret, Lopsided Appointments in NHIS

The Senate has begun a probe into the alleged illegal recruitment and lopsided appointment of some…

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Global Leaders Agree to Promote Health in Order to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals

Leaders from governments and United Nations organizations, city chiefs, and health experts from ar…

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Nigerian Army Releases List of Successful Medical Consultants/ Doctors for Direct Short Service Commission Course 23/2016

The underlisted candidates were successful at the Direct Short Service commission selection board …

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Senate Accuses NHIS Boss of Illegal Recruitments

The Senate yesterday accused the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS…

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Sultan Abdur-Rahman School of Health Technology Sokoto Announces Entrance Examination Dates

This is to inform all shortlisted students that entrance examination has been scheduled to hold as…

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Univeristy Of Lagos Inaugural Lecture By Professor Folakemi Adenike Oredugba

The University Of Lagos hereby announces its Nineteenth Inaugural Lecture for the 2015/2016 academ…

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Fake Doctor Performs Operation, Kills Mum and Baby

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 32-year-old Nonlonfun Celestine, a Junior Secondary Sc…

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FG to Build More VVF Hospitals

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, said Federal Government is planning to build three mo…

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Govt Hospitals to Establish Mandatory Infection Control Programmes

The Nigerian Infection Control Association (NICA) has asked government to mandate establishment of…

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Oba Akiolu Advocates Grassroots Health Policy

The Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu has called on medical professionals in Nigeria to look into th…

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Yakasai Hails Approval of Pharm D. Programme for Pharmacists

President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, Pharm Ahmed Yakasai, has commended the ap…

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Nigerian Doctor Boosts Access to Healthcare with Mobile App

A Nigerian physician/scientist, Dr. Ahjoku Amadi-Obi, has launched a digital mobile application ca…

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Our Health Professionals Have Turned Medical Tourism Into Racket

It is not going to be business as usual for health professionals engaged in  the practice of …

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Quack Doctor Arrested After 11 Years’ Practice

The police in Lagos State on Monday paraded an alleged quack doctor, Celestine Yolonfun, who was a…

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Nigeria Offers to Help South Sudan’s Health Sector

Nigeria has promised to help improve South Sudan’s health sector. Nigeria’s Minister o…

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NCC BOARD: Nurses Flay Senate’s Rejection of Former Kwara State Speaker

Nurses under the aegis of University Graduates of Nursing Science Association, UGONSA, have issued…

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‘Stress-Induced Changes in Maternal Gut Could Negatively Impact Offspring for Life’

Prenatal exposure to a mother’s stress contributes to anxiety and cognitive problems that pe…

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