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Blocking a Stress Protein May Treat Chronic Pain

With more than 100 million Americans living with chronic pain, there is a significant need to unco…

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New Lyme Disease Bacteria Discovered − CDC

A new Lyme disease-causing bacteria has been identified in the United States, and it may bring eve…

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Lassa Fever: FMC Bida Sets Up Rapid Response Team

The Federal Medical Centre,  (FMC) Bida  Niger State has set up a rapid response  t…

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University of Lagos Medical Students Protest Change in Cut-Off Marks, Shut Down Gates

Medical students at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Wednesday shut down the gates to the unive…

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FG to Award Leprosy-cured Certificates to Aid Former Patients

The ministry of health is considering certificates for people cured of leprosy to be able to retur…

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Sokoto Health Workers Decry Shortage of Manpower in Public Hospitals

Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, Sokoto State chapter, has decried what it called &nbs…

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Enugu Begins Sensitisation On Zika Virus

The Enugu State Ministry of Health has commenced a sensitisation programme for health workers on t…

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NANNM Creates Awareness On Lassa Fever In FCT

In its efforts to prevent the spread of Lassa fever disease in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)…

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​Re-engineering the Drug Law and Enforcement Agency

Only two weeks ago, a 20-year-old undergraduate allegedly killed his guardian after hanging out wi…

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Fighting Lassa Fever Through Community-based Disease Surveillance in Nigeria (1)

Disease surveillance is primary and indispensable towards effective prevention and control of infe…

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DSS Official Assaults UCH Nurse over Patients ...NNANM Goes on 48 hrs Strike

The peace at the University College Hospital (UCH) was, on Monday evening, truncated when a nurse …

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LUTH Doctors, Management Differ over Salary Arrears

Doctors at the Lagos University Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, have alleged deliberate skippin…

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Bionic spinal cord helps stroke victims walk again

• Brain implant lets patients control exoskeleton using their mind • Revolutionary&rsq…

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Curbing Quackery in Lab Science Practice

Science Laboratory Technology (SLT) is said to have immense benefit to the economy, as it brings a…

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Jigawa Records Second Lassa Fever Death

Jigawa State has recorded another case of fatal Lassa fever following the death of one person in J…

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Anambra Hospital Performs 5 Open Heart Surgeries

A team of medical doctors based in the United States of America, USA, under the auspices of Global…

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Let’s end FGM/C in Nigeria, Aishat Buhari Tasks Governors’ Wives

THE wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has urged wives of the state Governors in the country…

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5 UniMaid Medical Students Receive Media Trust scholarship

Five female students of the College of Medical Sciences, University of Maiduguri have received sch…

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NAFDAC Approves Local Production of Life Saving Drugs

  The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has approved th…

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Drug Insecurity Looms as Forex Scarcity Persists

•Pharmacists urge special attention to producers   If the scarcity of foreign exchan…

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