For the third consecutive year, Nigeria has suffered death of citizens due to Lassa fever infection. Although Lassa fever is also known to be endemic in Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, and Sierra Leone, Nigeria has had a tough battle with the killer infection, with the peak season always anticipated between December and June of […]
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Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). In this interview, he explains the recent outbreak of Lassa fever despite efforts by the agency; what is being done to contain the situation; what Nigerians must do to prevent getting infected; how the virus is contracted, […]
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The Medical Director of the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba (FNPHY), Lagos, Dr Oluwayemi Ogun, on Wednesday said the hospital admitted a total of 727 psychiatric patients this year. Ogun, made the disclosure at the hospital’s 2019 Presentation of the Medical Director Score Card in Lagos. She said the 727 admitted psychiatric patients was in contrast […]
Continue ReadingA survivor of sickle cell disease and Editor of African Sickle Cell News magazine, Ayoola Olajide, 55, has advised sickle cell patients to always stay hydrated, to prevent them from having vaso-occlusive crises, pain crises, strokes and infections associated with the disease. He said drinking eight to 10 glasses of water daily could help to […]
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Wife of Ondo State Governor, Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu has encouraged Nigerians to apply a holistic approach to breast cancer by promoting early diagnosis and give appropriate primary surgical treatment. She stated this at the 7th Distinguished Guest Lecture of the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo tagged”A Stitch in Time Saves Lives: Breast cancer Realities in […]
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A Medical Consultant and Radiation Oncologist in Benin City, the Edo State capital, Dr. Oludare Folajimi Adeyemi has made a major breakthrough in the treatment of the dreaded prostrate cancer. Following the breakthrough, some medical experts said the illness was now a common thing in the hands of Adeyemi since his discovery of the tested […]
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The launch of Roadmap on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal and Neonate Mortality in Nigeria by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, supported by Health minister, Ehanire, and other stakeholders at the 62nd NCH in Asaba. Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, and Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Thursday decried the “rising and unprecedented” rates of maternal and […]
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We must stop being dumping ground, says ministerLike some Asian countries, Nigeria may have to depend on local medication in its quest for safe and effective drugs.Minister of State for Health, Dr. Adeleke Mamora, yesterday, frowned at Nigeria’s over-dependence on imported medicine and its inability to attain self-sufficiency. Speaking at the fifth Nigeria Pharma Manufacturers’ […]
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Hope of survival has risen for Nigerians exposed to untoward effects of drugs, substances of abuse and poisons as the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, upscaled its information centre to a 24-hour National Drug and Poisons Information, Emergency Response and Research Centre. To this end, an eight-storey building estimated at N2.6 billion to house all […]
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A medical expert, Dr Ademola Lawal, has said that Nigeria has the capacity to handle any case of Ebola in the country with its experience on the Lassa fever challenge. He also gave the assurance that the country has taken all necessary steps, and was prepared to detect and curb any case of Ebola that […]
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