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Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Tuesday, 14 January 2014

History made as DELSUTH performs first kidney transplant

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The Delta State University Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH), Oghara has recorded what is still considered a rare feat in the medical field in...
Wednesday, 8 January 2014

Woman Died In Hospital Not My Office, Says Gov Aliyu

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Niger State governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has denied reports that a woman died in his office. The governor on Tuesday said that...
Monday, 6 January 2014

Why I Donated My Kidney To Save OJB's Life –– Mabel

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In a recent interview, veteran producer OJB Jezreel and his first wife, Mabel talked about their marriage and why she gave him a kidney....
Thursday, 12 December 2013

Zamfara Govt. Sacks 400 Nurses and Midwives Over Strike

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The Zamfara State Government has announced the sack of over 400 nurses and midwives, who went on strike over pay, accusing them of leavi...
Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Nigerian Men Have Poor Sperm Quality – Prof Nicholas Zech

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The sperm of Nigerian men is said to be of a poor quality which accounts for an increasing rate of infertility amongst married couples w...
Tuesday, 19 November 2013

14-year-old Girl Dies After Using a Tampon for the first time

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An aspiring West End star was killed after using her first tampon and suffering toxic shock syndrome, her distraught family has revealed...
Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Scientists unravel biggest mystery of HIV

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Scientists have finally found a way to outsmart the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), or rather, its ability to hide from the antibodi...
Friday, 1 November 2013

22 Lagos Pupils Fall Unconscious After Inhaling Gaseous Substance

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There was confusion at Ogba Junior Grammar School, Lagos, on Thursday after about 22 pupils fell unconscious. Punch Metro learnt that ...
Thursday, 24 October 2013

Three confirmed dead after cholera outbreak in Lagos

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The Government of Lagos state has confirmed the outbreak of cholera in the state. The sad and shocking development was made known yeste...
Monday, 7 October 2013

Nigeria records two new polio cases

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Nigeria has for the first time gone eleven months without recording any incidence of type three Wild Polio Virus (WPV3), even as she con...
Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Marijuana, safer than painkillers — STUDY

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Believe it or not, but you could be safer ingesting marijuana - the most used illegal drug on Earth – than a prescription pain killer dr...
Thursday, 22 August 2013

UI, OAU to Award Degrees in Trado Medicine Practice

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Pmnews: The Federal Government has certified some federal universities to award degree certificates in traditional medicine practice. T...
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Saturday, 17 August 2013

Fake doctor takes delivery of over 90 babies

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A man who holds a secondary school certificate, Stephen Nwankwo, but worked as a doctor in a fake hospital has been arrested alongside t...
Thursday, 15 August 2013

NMA arrests 12 quack doctors, shuts four hospitals in Rivers

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The Nigerian Medical Association, Rivers State chapter, said on Wednesday that it arrested 12 suspected quack medical doctors and shut d...
Tuesday, 23 July 2013

US-based Nigerian named Physician of the Year

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U.S-based National Medical Association, NMA, has selected a Nigerian, Prof. Samuel Dagogo–Jack, as the NMA Internal Medicine Section Phy...
Saturday, 13 July 2013

Zimbabwe hospital charges women $5 for each scream during childbirth

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A Transparency International report claims that a hospital in Zimbabwe charged women $5 for each scream during childbirth as a way of st...
Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Woman Delivers Monkey-like Baby In Kaduna

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The latest assertion to the popular saying, “Wonders never end,” has just been recorded in Kaduna State where a young Fulani woman gave ...
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Thursday, 27 June 2013

Every celebrity has his/her own responsibilities - Juliet Ibrahim Speaks on OJB Kidney Transplant Fundraising

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Ghanaian actress, Juliet Ibrahim has a word for those who feel celebrites are not doing enough to help in raising fund to cater for OJB J...
Tuesday, 18 June 2013

NAFDAC impounds drugs worth millions of naira imported by Ekiti state senator

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Officers of the National Agency for Foods, Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, over the weekend impounded drugs worth millions of N...
Monday, 17 June 2013

Pregnant women can drink up to seven glasses of alcohol without having adverse affect on children – study

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A new study has found that pregnant women can drink between three and seven glasses of alcohol without adversely affecting their unborn...