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Medical Consultant Wants Laws to Check Quackery

A medical consultant with the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Dr Innocent Abang, has call…

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49,000 Malnourished Children Risk Death in Borno — UNICEF

An estimated 49,000 of the 244,000 children suffering from severe malnutrition in Borno State face…

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Covering The Toilet Seat With Tissue Paper: Is It Safer For Health Or A Hygiene No-Go?

  . The experts have spoken.   For years, people have covered toilet seats in pape…

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Why Cardiac Screening is Important for Age 40-50

Nigerians have been urged to know their state of health, and do cardiac screening when they are 40…

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Nigerian Psychiatrists Set to Reduce Drug Addiction, Depression with Novel Technology

A New non-invasive treatment approach that is suitable for drug addiction, chronic depression, mig…

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HIV-Positive Persons must Beware of Tuberculosis

Although it is one of the world’s oldest diseases, tuberculosis is not currently on the decl…

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Experts to Brainstorm on Reversing Nigeria’s Medical Tourism

Health professionals and specialists in various medical fields are set to brainstorm in a conferen…

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Prostate Cancer: How Gene Examination can Lower Risk

Men with advanced prostate cancer could be checked for high-risk family genes because they are fai…

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287 Women Operated of VVF Within a Year in Sokoto

Sokoto State commissioner for Health, Dr. Balarabe Kakale Shuni, yesterday said that no fewer than…

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FG to Revamp 10,000 Primary Health Care Centres Nationwide

The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, over the weekend disclosed the federal gover…

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WHO Adopts Four Approaches to End AIDS as Global Summit Begins

Organisation lists early warning signs of HIV drug resistance   Determined to end the Hum…

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Mother’s Diet Could Affect Disease Inheritance

* Low-protein diet resulted in smaller offspring   New research, led by Queen Mary Univer…

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Why you Smell Odour Surprises

Sweat from stress leads to the worst smell than heat. It’s bad enough that you’re stre…

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Leprosy Cases Landing in Tertiary Care Worry Experts

Dermatologists are worried at a rising number of leprosy cases missing diagnosis in field work and…

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O&G Volunteers Coming to the Health Centre Near You

Four years after it was initiated, the volunteer obstetrics scheme (VOS) launched nationwide this …

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HIV/AIDS Still Top killer of African Adolescents

HIV/AIDS remains the leading cause of death among Africans aged between 10 and 19, UNICEF chief An…

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‘Nigeria, 22 Other Countries Still at Risk of Ebola Outbreak’

* ‘15% vote for health sector not feasible in 2017’   Nigeria and 22 other co…

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All Tiers of Lagos Medical Care'll Work - Ambode

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has said his administration will strengthen the three tie…

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Menopause in Women/Men: Solutions to the Disquiet of Middle Age (2)

In this article, we shall look at the cause of menopause in women and the feelings that it generat…

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Malnutrition Claims 2,300 Children, 145 Women Daily – FG

The Federal Government has said that Nigeria loses about 2,300 under-five children and 145 women o…

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