Medical News


Starting a Career in the Medical Field

A friend of mine, who is a nurse, recently invited me to give a career talk to a group of senior s…

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Protest In National Hospital Over Unpaid Allowances

Three unions of the National Hospital Abuja (NHA) yesterday kicked off a three -day work-to-rule p…

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LUTH ARD Remains Adamant on Strike, Patients Decry Action

The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Chapter, Idi-…

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EFCC Arraigns ex-NHIS Boss For $2.2m illegal Transaction

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday ordered the prison remand of a former Executive Secreta…

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Strike: FMC Lagos Gives 14-day Ultimatum

MEDICAL and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Ebute-Metta bran…

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‘LAUTECH Staff May be Redeployed to Schools’

The Chairman, Governing Council of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital,…

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Long-term Breastfeeding, Panacea for Adult illnesses

Extended breastfeeding is not only beneficial to babies and nursing mothers but also to adults as …

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FIP Announces World Pharmacists Day 2016: “Pharmacists: Caring For You”

As designated by the FIP Council several years ago at the FIP Congress in Istanbul, 25 September m…

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PSN Tasks New Fellows on Excellence

The recent dinner reception organised in honour of the newly inaugurated Fellows of the Lagos Stat…

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MEDICAL TOURISM: Delta to Partner With Investors On Hospital Development – Okowa

Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has disclosed that his administration would partne…

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ORAL HEALTH: Unilever Targets 1m Children

As part of efforts to celebrate this year’s World Oral Health Day, Unilever Nigeria Plc is t…

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17,000 Kidney Failure Cases Diagnosed Annually in Nigeria

Lesss than 2,000 have access to dialysis, a Ratio of 1 Nephrologist to 1m persons    …

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Nigerian Optometric Association to Hold Election into Various Offices at 2016 AGM

The Chairman and members of the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Optometric Association wish to…

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NMA 2016 Elections: 15 Candidates Cleared, 2 Emerge Unopposed

At close of nomination yesterday the 14th day of March 2016, 17 aspirants were validly nominated t…

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22 Undergo Open-heart Surgery at UNTH

Twenty-two patients, who were suffering from various heart diseases, have undergone open-heart sur…

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Medical Students to Spend 11 Years in Varsity − NUC

The National Universities Commission has declared that any student who wants to study medicine wil…

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Mosquitoes’ Rapid Spread Poses Threat Beyond Zika

Experts have warned that the Zika virus was just one of a growing number of continent-jumping dise…

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Discovered! Treatment that Destroys Breast Cancer Within 11 days

Finally, there may be respite for over 27,000 Nigerians diagnosed with breast cancer annually. Sci…

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NMA, National Officers' Committee Press Release On Impending Disaster and Collapse of Government Hospitals and Public Health Sector

For almost two decades now, the nation's Health sector has been unduly traumatized and continu…

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Doctors Accuse Okorocha of Intimidation

Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria, AGPMPN, Imo State branch, yes…

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