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Reconstitute Pharmacists Council, PSN urges Buhari
... marks World Pharmacists Day
Pharmacistss in Nigeria today joined their counterparts all over the world to mark the World Pharmacists Day amidst calls on President Muhammadu Buhari by the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) to…
Painful menstruation? See a doctor
... experts say it'ts a medical condition that requires treatment
Recent studies have revealed that about 50 per cent of women above the puberty age suffer from a monthly disorder known as primary dysmenorrhoea. Such disorders have been…
HIV: Only 50% of Nigerian patients on treatment – NACA
Only about 747,000 people living with HIV are currently receiving treatment in the country, the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has revealed.
This figure was released in Abuja Wednesday, by an assistant director of the…
More male contraceptives coming!
For the Nigerian man who wishes to take the burden of family planning off his wife, the condom and vasectomy, a surgical procedure to cut the vas deferens, the tubes that carry a man’s sperm from his scrotum to testicles remain the only…
Study links human breast cancer with virus in cattle
A new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers establishes for the first time a link between infection with the bovine leukemia virus and human breast cancer.
In the study, published this month in the journal PLOS ONE and…
Malaria death declines – WHO/UNICEF report
Malaria death rates have plunged by 60% since 2000, translating into 6.2 million lives saved, the vast majority of them children, according to a joint WHO-UNICEF report released Thursday.
The report – “Achieving the malaria MDG target” –…
Eating imported chicken suicidal – Iwu
Renowned Professor of Pharmacognosy, Prof. Mauice Iwu has described the consumption of imported chicken by Nigerians as “suicidal” because of the chemical used in preserving them which, he says, could be harmful to the body.
Speaking…
Good News: Cure for sickle cell confirmed!
• American doctors cure 12 adults
• 87% success rate reported in phase 1/11 clinical trial
Physicians at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System have cured 12 adult patients of sickle cell disease using a unique…
Fruit and vegetables may protect your mind
... prevent depression, new study reveals
Eating a Mediterranean diet or other healthy dietary pattern, comprising of fruit, vegetables, legumes, and nuts and low in processed meats, is associated with preventing the onset of depression,…