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Pharmacists’Council Decries Indiscriminate Sale of Drugs in Kaduna

The Pharmacists' Council of Nigeria (PCN) has expressed concern over indiscriminate sale of dr…

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How to Tell Someone you’re Terminally ill

I say, The doctors told me there is nothing they can do, it is inoperable and incurable, says Wand…

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Hearing Loss can be Detected Early in Children

Put two of your fingers into your ears for two minutes while you mentally block every sound from y…

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Air Force Officer Batters Female Doctor at OAUTHC

Doctors at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile-Ife, are battling to sav…

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Microbiologist Jailed Seven Years for Manufacturing Fake Drugs

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday sentenced a graduate of Microbiology from the Universit…

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10% Price Cut on Fruits and Veg 'Could Prevent Thousands of Heart Deaths'

Reducing the price of fruits, vegetables and grains and increasing the price of sugary drinks by 1…

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Prostate Cancer: Low Vitamin D May Predict Aggressive Disease

An investigation of men undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous prostate shows there is a link be…

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New WHO Report Ranks Nigeria Low in Immunisation

New report on Africa’s immunisation coverage released by the World health Organisation (WHO)…

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Zika Virus: NIMR Scientists Call for Vector Control

In order to prevent future outbreak of Zika Virus, scientists at the Nigerian Institute of Medical…

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Lagos Pledges Support for Advocacy in Child and Family Health Project

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris has restated the State government’s comm…

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Local Production of Essential Drugs our Goal —Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured pharmaceutical companies in the country of government suppo…

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Health Benefits of Going Organic

A healthy diet requires getting the most nutritional value out of every bite you take and you can …

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Rewriting the Law of Conception

"When I found so astonishing a power placed withm my hands, I hesitated a long time concernin…

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Medical Doctor, Wife kidnapped in Orlu

Uneasy calm now reigns in Orlu as the whereabouts of a prominent medical doctor in Orlu, Dr. C. I.…

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How to End Osun, Doctors’ Rift, By Lawyer

A Lagos lawyer, Adebisi Ogundipe, has suggested ways of ending the impasse between the Osun State …

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Lions Club Nigeria Flags off Measles Campaign in Lagos

As part of activities to take National Measles Immunization programme 2016 to every door step in L…

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Forecasts of Birth Weight are of Often Inaccurate

Katy Clemens wanted to have a natural, drug-free childbirth. Then an ultrasound suggested her baby…

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US, Partners Donate 800,000 Malaria Test kits to 5 Northern States, Others

The Federal Ministry of Health has taken delivery of 800,000 malaria rapid diagnostic test RDT, ki…

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WHO Outlines ways to Prevent and Mitigate Childhood Hearing Loss

Nearly 32 million children across the world live with disabling hearing loss. A new WHO report, &q…

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Hope Rises for Effective Malaria Vaccine

There is renewed hope for an effective malaria vaccine as the first candidate against plasmodium v…

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