Medical News


Can New Roadmap on Food Fortification Avert 300,000 Child-Death?

Since the commencement of food fortification in Nigeria in 1990s, the Nigerian government, the Glo…

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FG Begins Health Insurance Coverage For IDPs

In response to the plight of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) across the country, the federal g…

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LUTH Doctor Abducted, killed in Ogun Hometown

Suspected hoodlums on Sunday abducted and killed a doctor with the Lagos University Teaching Hospi…

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Okowa’s Wife Builds Sickle Cell Centre in Asaba

Wife of the Delta State governor, Dame Edith Okowa, has said she was building a sickle cell centre…

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Lassa Fever: Nigeria Records 273 Cases, 149 Deaths — WHO

The World Health Organisation, WHO, has announced that it had been notified of 273 cases of Lassa …

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Nigerian Medical Association Felicitates with President Buhari on his One Year in Office

The President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Dr Mike Ogirima, on behalf of the National offi…

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WHO Rejects Calls To Move Rio Olympics Over Zika Outbreak

  Zika, WHO, Rio OlympicsThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has rejected calls to move or …

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Strike: Doctors Issue Seven-Day Ultimatum to Al-Makura

Nasarawa state chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA yesterday issued a seven day ultima…

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International Council of Nurses Calls for Investment in Nursing and Midwifery

A series of meetings held by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) in advance of the World Hea…

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Address by the Nigerian Optometric Association President at an Advocacy Visit to the FRSC

BEING TEXT OF AN ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT NIGERIAN OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION, DR DAMIAN ECHENDU AT AN…

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How Mood and Stress Reduce Lifespan

A study, published this week in Molecular Psychiatry, finds the genetic basis of a poorly understo…

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Unregistered Drugs Likely Cause of kidney, Liver Diseases –NAFDAC

Enugu State co-ordinator of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)…

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Health Insurance is the Cheapest Way to Access Quality Healthcare Service

Established with a vision to be a leader in the industry, ensuring that every Nigerian has access …

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Preventive Healthcare is what Health Insurance is all About

"Premier Medicaid is at the forefront of advocating community health insurance as a panacea f…

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Doctors Canvass End to Smoking

The Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria (AGPMPN) and the Society o…

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Reposition Military Hospitals, Says General

Former Corps Commander Medical (CCM) Major General Samuel Ameh (rtd) has called for the reposition…

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The proliferation of Mentally Challenged Persons on our Highways!!

I have travelled wide but Nigeria remains one of  the few  countries where mentally chal…

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World Health Assembly Agrees New Health Emergencies Programme

WHO Member States today agreed to one of the most profound transformations in the Organization&rsq…

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Toyin Sarakrs Wellbeing Foundation, UNFPA, others Partner on Improved Midwifery in Nigeria

For two days, from 4th May till 5th May 2016, in Abuja, Nigeria, the Wellbeing Foundation Africa a…

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Walnut Good for Fertility, Brain, Heart, Others

•African Walnut The ‘African walnut’ known botanically as Tetracarpidium conoph…

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