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Saving Lives : NNPC Donates Tissue Transplant Medical Equipment Worth Over N200M to Kano Teaching Hospital
The Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) donated tissue typing and cross match laboratory equipment worth over N200 million to the Aminu Kano Teaching...
Africa has world’s highest burden of diseases, say experts
…foreign drugs may not work for Africans …clinical trials needed to develop current and future innovative inventions for prevention and...
Clinical research in Nigeria: Experts decry dearth of infrastructure, data, funding
The Director, Project Management and Business Development (Africa), Clinique Research Development Ltd, Ms Mutiah Ipaye-Macaulay, says Nigeria still lag behind in clinical...
Egypt records Africa’s first case of coronavirus
Egypt has recorded Africa’s first first case of coronavirus (COVID-19), Reuters news agency has reported quoting state television. The health ministry said...
FG rush to reinforce defences against coronavirus – sets up 3 centers to test for deadly virus
The federal government is rushing to reinforce defences against the rapidly spreading coronavirus, as it recently acquired the necessary reagents to test for the...
Doctor who blew whistle over coronavirus has died – Wuhan Hospital
A Chinese doctor who warned about the coronavirus in December and was reprimanded by Chinese authorities for “spreading rumors” is dead after...
Primary health care to run 24 hours service – minister
Minister for Health Dr. Osagie Enahere has disclosed that the Primary health care centers have been standardized with the intention to provide...
President Buhari appoints Saad Ahmed as CMD, Federal Medical Centre
President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday appointed Prof Saad Ahmed as the Chief Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jabi, Abuja. The appointment takes...
From Wuhan to West Africa – Living in an era of infectious disease outbreaks
By Dr. Dr Adaeze Oreh The ongoing new corona virus (nCov) outbreak that was first reported in Wuhan, China mid-December 2019 causes...
China calls for ‘resolute fight against deadly coronavirus as death toll rise to 106
Officials in China revealed that the death toll from coronavirus outbreak has risen to 106, with the authorities in Hubei province, saying...
Concerns over new virus from China prompt airport screenings for passengers arriving airports in Nigeria
Passengers arriving Nigerian airports will undergo enhanced health screenings out of concern over a new coronavirus that has killed two people in Asia, the Federal Airports...
Lassa fever: 2 doctors, pregnant woman die in Kano
Lassa fever has reportedly claimed three persons including two doctors and a pregnant woman in Mano. The deaths were recorded at Aminu Kano Teaching...
Aisha Buhari urges women to get annual breast cancer screenings
First Lady Aisha Buhari has advised Nigerian women to visit their primary care physician annually for breast cancer screenings. ” I...
Plastic of Paris: Hospital MD, wife face attempted murder, negligence charge
For allegedly attempting to kill a 17-year-old boy through negligence and causing grevious hurt, a hospital director and his wife have...
Malnutrition: How RUTF saved 3-year-old Modu from the brink of death
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh 3-year-old Adamu Modu (not real name), was left in the care of his grandfather, Modu Baba, an octogenarian from...
Controversial Studies Say It’s OK to Eat Red Meat
A group of papers about red and processed meat and human health, released recently by Annals of Internal Medicine, says it’s OK to...
