Medical News


NMA’s Ex-President Flays Medical Tourism by Public Office Holders

FORMER President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr Osahon Enabulele, has flayed the ap…

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Don’t Privatise Hospitals, Health Workers Tell FG

The Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria has appealed to the Federal Government to disregar…

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Health Ministry, USAID Offer Free Family Planning

The Federal Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the United States Agency for International D…

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NMA Seeks Quick Passage of Mental Health Bill

The Deputy Secretary, Nigerian Medical Association, Dr. Peter Ogunnubi, has urged the Federal Gove…

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Trado Medicine, Source Of Care For Africans —Orhii

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control has described traditional medici…

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Clinix Opens Mega Diagnostic Centre

Clinix Healthcare, a medical diagnostic institution that started in Kenya, has opened a second meg…

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Church Boosts Health Care With Dialysis Centre

A parish of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, City of David, Lagos State, has inaugurated a di…

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More Trouble For Patients As Cancer Machines Falter

Patients undergoing treatment for cancer cry out over frequent breakdown of cancer treatment machi…

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FMH Fake Doctor Saga: Union Cracks Down On Quacks

Forty cases of quackery in the medical profession are in courts across the country. But the case o…

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Ebola: 690 Quarantined In North Sierra Leone As Virus Resurfaces

Health authorities in northern Sierra Leone yesterday put 690 persons under quarantine after a 16-…

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How Bauchi State Attained Polio-Free Status

LONG before Nigeria attained one year polio-free status, Bauchi State was ahead of the national le…

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Child Mortality Plunges 53% Worldwide

But 16,000 under-5s still die daily   The World Health Organisation, WHO, has announced a…

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Pharmacists Seek Employment of Colleagues in Kwara

THE Kwara state branch of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has urged the state government t…

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Researchers Turn To Seaweeds To Develop New Antibiotics

A research team from the University of Exeter, Exeter, South West England, are trying to use the a…

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Pensioners Urged To Access Free Health Care

Managing Director of Defence Health Maintenance Limited, Commodore Ahmed Abdullahi (Retired), has …

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AMLSN Identifies Mismanagement Of Human Resources, Others As Bane Of Health Sector

AS part of their contribution to finding lasting solution to crises in the health sector, medical …

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Dissolution Of Medical And Dental Council

Recently, the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN) raised objection over the d…

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Medical Guild Offers LASTMA Officials Free Health Checks

AS part of measures to ensure better health for civil servants in Lagos state, medical doctors und…

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Doctors’ Continued Strike Paralyses Enugu Teaching Hospital

MEDICAL services at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Enugu may not be restored s…

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My Experience With Breast Cancer –Survivor

One of the most dreaded diseases by women is breast cancer. Although there is growing awareness ab…

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