More people die of lung cancer each year than breast, colon, and prostate cancers combined. One particularly lethal form of the disease is lung adenocarcinoma or...
Many consumers believe that because generics are cheaper they must be inferior. This lack of understanding costs consumers and medical aids millions of rands each year....
Twin girls joined at the lower abdomen were separated in a six-hour operation at the Netcare Unitas Hospital in Centurion on Saturday, 21 January. Speaking ahead...
South Africa has estimated a R350 billion annual health care industry, with the department of health moving towards eHealth solutions in line with World Health Organisation...
The growing demand for personalised medicine and the increasing simplicity of genetic testing underpins the concept of pharmacogenomics – which gives medical practitioners the power to...
One third of more than 700 health facilities in the conflict-ridden Borno State, north-eastern Nigeria, have been completely destroyed, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report says....
The Imo state Government says the new federal government policy of ‘primary health care under one roof’ will no doubt improve accessibility and enhance better delivery...
The poorly planned and executed relocation of mental health patients,causing the deaths of at least 37 people, has led to four United Nations (UN) human rights...
Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has urged the Federal Government to sustain the policy which grants access to free healthcare to people living with albinism who...
No fewer than 9,579 people were tested positive to HIV of the 616,318 that attended the HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) awareness programme from January...
By Collins Yakubu-hammer Dr Charles Ugwuanyi, a Consultant Neurosurgeon with the Wellington Neurosurgery Centre, Abuja, says that Nigeria loses 1 billion dollars annually to medical tourism...
The National Association Of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Ogbomosho, has embarked on an indefinite strike to demand payment...
By Dotun Awosakin Lagos — Skye Bank Plc, in collaboration with its partner, C.O.P.E, (Care, Organisation and Public Enlightenment) a non-governmental organisation, has drawn public...
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