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Women who experience complications during pregnancy may be at greater risk of dying from heart disease later in life than women with uncomplicated pregnancies, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal…

Britain will attempt to carry out its first womb transplants after a clinical trial enabling 10 women to undergo the procedure was approved, doctors said Wednesday. Surgeons hope to replicate the success of the world’s first-ever effective…

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday hailed WHO's delisting of Nigeria from the polio-endemic countries, calling for continued vigilance to ensure that Nigeria maintains this new status. Presidential spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, said in a…

Stakeholders in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), the partners group coordinating the global development and implementation of short-term, long-term polio eradication strategic plans and emergency action plans, have reacted…

Nigeria has been removed from the list of polio endemic countries, a major feat in the global polio eradication efforts. The announcement was made today by the World Health Organisation (WHO) at a meeting of the Global Polio Eradication…

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... 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…

... 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…

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…

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…