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The Blood Safety Programme Manager, Institute of Human Virology, Nigerians (IHVN), Mr. Abdullahi Abubakar, says regular blood donation improves body fitness and lowers calories. Abubakar explained at a blood donation drive in Abuja on Tuesday to mark World Blood Donor Day that donating one pint of blood (450 ml) removes 650 calories from the donor’s body.
The Borno Government on Sunday commended the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for rehabilitating 166 healthcare centers across the state. Sule Mele, The Executive Director of Primary Health Care Management Board (PHCMB), made the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Maiduguri.
Male said that the centers were some of those vandalized by Boko Haram insurgents.
(Xinhua) A surgeon is preparing to select three women to undergo Britain’s first womb transplant later in the year, following permission granted to British medics to carry out the procedures.
The report says three women are among 50 infertile patients on a waiting list for the pioneering operation and they will be informed: “within a few weeks”.
As part of its efforts to digitalize patient records at the hospital, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan said it is introducing a smart card to ease patients care and monotony of payment at its payment points.
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the draft Food Safety and Quality Bill as well as the Food Safety Institutional Reform working document.Malaria vaccines reduce cases by 91% as scientists edge closer to AIDS jab
Using two experimental anti-malarial vaccines, which work in different ways, can greatly reduce the number of malaria infections in animal studies. Experimental vaccines, which independently achieve 48 percent and 68 percent reductions in malaria cases, can achieve 91 percent reduction when combined. Presently, each vaccine is at a different stage of human trials, and there have not been efforts to combine them. However, a team led by Imperial College London has now tested the effect when using the two types of vaccine together.
HMO seeks lasting solutions to affordable, accessible, quality healthcare
Health Maintenance Organisation (HMO), Hygeia has called on stakeholders to create solutions to the issue of quality affordable and accessible healthcare in Nigeria
Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Hygeia, Obinna Abajue, said the purpose of the HMO is to help people achieve their dreams and that its fundamental rests on access to quality and affordable health care.
Challenges of tackling prescription medicines’ abuse, other psychoactive substances, by NAFDAC
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has expressed concerns about the abuse of prescription medicines and other psychoactive substances not under international control.
The fundamental objective of the drug control conventions is to achieve a balance between ensuring availability for medical and scientific purposes and preventing diversion to illicit use and abuse.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday said Nigeria might face a drug abuse epidemic due to increasing influx of Tramadol into the country.
Mr Garba Ahmadu, the NDLEA Commander, Murtala Muhammed Airport Command, gave the warning at an event to mark the “UN International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking” in Lagos.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigeria was committed to the provision of affordable healthcare facilities in the drive to have a healthy population.
At the commissioning of the Nigerian Navy Reference Hospital in Calabar on Tuesday, Buhari said that Nigeria’s primary health care system needs to be innovative and quality driven.
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The CEO of Global Health Resources, Dr. Wale Alabi, has made a case for Public-Private Partnership in the delivery of quality health service to Nigerians. Alabi made the statement at the fifth edition of the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Award held last Friday at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Michael J.Porter is a lecturer in Molecular Genetics at the University of Central Lancashire. He insists that by understanding what happens inside our bodies we can learn to control stress and use it to our benefit.
Stress is great. It makes us faster, stronger, agiler and our brains have better recall and flexibility. That’s why people are willing to put themselves in stressful work situations or engage in extreme sports.
Stakeholders in the health sector are set for a roundtable discussion on the lack of sustainable healthcare in Nigeria.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Tuesday said it had commenced training of 20,000 young pharmacists across the country as parts of its effort to stem menace of drug abuse
