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Folashade Salako, a final year student of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), has been declared as the best Pharmacy brain in the country after clinching the 2019 Shalina Young Talent Award (SYTA).
After three fiercely fought competitive regional rounds at the University of Ibadan, Faculty of Pharmacy, OAU Ife and Faculty of Pharmacy UNILAG, the grand finale of the competition, took place at Ibis Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, on 8 April 2019.
Students of the University of Lagos have urged the government and the varsity’s management to beef up security at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, which shares premises with the varsity’s College of Medicine.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has said that long term exposure to low levels of contaminants in food obtained from animals that are poorly kept or fed with poor quality feeds exposes consumers to diseases.
Adequate intake of certain nutrients is associated with a reduction in all-cause mortality when the nutrient source is foods, but not supplements, according to a new study. There was no association between dietary supplement use and a lower risk of death.
In July 2018, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo launched the Patients’ Bill of Rights (PBoR).
The event at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja,.organised by the Consumer Protection Council (CPC), was attended by critical stakeholders in Nigeria’s health sector, including the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).
PBoR is an aggregation of patients’ rights that exist in other instruments including the 1999 Constitution, Consumer Protection Act, Child Rights Act, Freedom of Information Act, National Health Act, and other sundry regulations.
There are 1.7 million Nigerians with diabetes type 1 and type 2, according to the International Diabetes Federation. That figure is about the same as the population of Bayelsa State.
The life of a man or woman with type 2 diabetes in Nigeria is one regular visit to doctors, tests and expensive medication taking either as tablets or injections. It is a life fraught with financial, physical and emotional stress. But there is emerging evidence that this does not have to be so. Research in the past couple of years points conclusively to the fact that type 2 diabetes can be reversed.
Commissioner for health, Lagos state, Dr. Jide Idris, has restated commitment to reduce the maternal mortality across the state and environs. He made the remarks during the facility tour of rehabilitated Ayinke House at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).
Despite several interventions to reduce Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), Nigeria still contributes ten percent of the global burden of maternal deaths.
The wife of the governor of Plateau state, Mrs Regina Simon Lalong has commission six primary health cares in Jos South and Jos North local government areas of the state to enable women access and use of family planning services.
The primary health cares commissioned were located at Bukuru Jos Expressway, Bukuru Central and Vwang in Jos South LG.
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is launching a new global campaign, #Vaccineswork to emphasize the power and safety of vaccines among parents and wider social media users.
Amid growing outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, UNICEF’s campaign will use social media to show that most parents trust vaccines to protect their children.
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Shalina Healthcare is set to promote pharmacy as a profession in Nigeria by engaging tertiary health institutions in the country in the professional development of young pharmacists.
The Benue State University Teaching Hospital (BSUTH), Makurdi charges just N60,00 for hip replacement surgeries as part of its social service to Benue people, according to Prof. Terrumun Swende, its Chief Medical Director.
Mr Swende told journalists on Friday in Makurdi that the teaching hospital’s primal objective was not to generate revenue but to offer tertiary healthcare services, train doctors and consultants, and offer other social services.
On the heels of the 2019 general election, economic experts and analysts of the local manufacturing industry have called for a turnaround of fortunes of the Nigerian industrial sector.
They have asked the incoming administration to promulgate policies that would facilitate maximizing potentials of the Nigerian pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, who spoke at the 1st Association of Industrial Pharmacists of Nigeria (NAIP) 2019 Bi-Monthly meeting and lecture, noted that “Companies cannot grow if the economy is not growing,”
Almost £3m is being invested by the Scottish government to expand experiential learning of student pharmacists, with some funding being used to enable students to experience remote and rural practice.
Under the Scottish Pharmacy Experiential Learning scheme, student pharmacists currently undertake experiential learning in community pharmacy and hospitals, but a funding injection of £2.85m for 2018/ 2019 will enable them to experience new settings such as primary care and NHS 24.
