FG to harmonise national blood database
The Federal Government has started moves to establish a unified national blood database. The harmonisation of the national blood database ...
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NSIA-LUTH Cancer Centre to establish nuclear medicine by 2025
To expand its comprehensive cancer diagnosis and treatment capacity, the NSIA-LUTH Cancer Centre is set to establish a major nuclear ...
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Hypertension treatment research programme enrols 23,000 patients, targets 5 new states
A collaborative academic research programme, Hypertension Treatment in Nigeria, which has enrolled over 23,000 patients with the sickness, is seeking ...
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48 million Nigerian children need deworming as Lagos takes action
The Lagos State Ministry of Health Neglected Tropical Diseases unit will conduct a mass school-based deworming campaign from May 20 ...
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Pharmacists protest alleged harassment by NDLEA in Kaduna
The Kaduna State chapter of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has protested against alleged harassment and extortion by operatives of ...
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Dangerous side effect: Widely used COVID-19 vaccine withdrawn by producer
The Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide due to concerns over a rare and dangerous side effect. This development ...
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Oyo nurses threaten indefinite strike, issue 14-day ultimatum
The Oyo state council of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives has threatened to embark on an indefinite ...
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Nigeria, 15 other countries get $36.5m to eliminate trachoma disease
Nigeria and 15 other countries have been boosted with 36.5m dollars in new funding, to eliminate trachoma in their countries. ...
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Strange illness claims 8 lives in Sokoto, 208 cases identified – NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said no fewer than eight lives have been lost out of 208 ...
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We will never again ask patients to source for blood —LASUTH
Adetokunbo Fabamwo, a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM) Ikeja, is the ...
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