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Gov. Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State has approved the establishment of clinical laboratory research centre in the state to serve as research training and services centre for HIV, Lassa fever and emerging viruses.
A new study has revealed that mothers who take paracetamol during pregnancy may be increasing the risk of their children developing autism. Published in the Journal of Epidemiology, the study found that children exposed to paracetamol during pregnancy were at a 30 per cent increased risk of losing some attention functions.
Even though the painkiller is usually given to pregnant women, researchers say they have now identified an association between exposure to the drug and subsequent autism in boys.
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called for the removal of the health sector from the concurrent list to address the welfare challenges of medical practitioners and workers in the sector.
Apparently worried by the problem of inadequate workforce in the health sector, concerned stakeholders have called for holistic effort to improve capacity and access to services nationwide. Specifically, the stakeholders canvassed for the deployment of technology, training programmes, health insurance and adequate funding to improve the health status of Nigerians.
One of the common conditions found worldwide affecting individuals is halitosis also known as bad breath. It is a social nuisance and indicates clear and imminent danger. Fold your two hands into a cup and breathe into it to smell if there is bad odour. If there is, then there is a problem.
If you look at your tongue in the mirror and it has a thick, whitish coating, this also confirms it. The sad part is that colleagues, friends and relations are usually embarrassed to tell the person concerned that they have such problems.
No fewer than two people have reportedly died at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara State, since members of the Joint Health Sector Unions commenced their warning strike.
Our correspondent gathered on Friday that an official in UITH’s Accounts Department identified simply as Haruna and a woman whose family asked not to be named, had died at the hospital.
People do the incredible when it comes to taking their medications. For instance, some people take their drugs with soft drinks or sports drinks; while some individuals use alcoholic beverages to swallow their drugs!
Yet, on its own, alcohol causes the blood vessels to dilate, resulting in blood flow to the surface of the skin where nerve endings respond to changes in temperature.
To achieve universal health coverage (UHC), Nigeria should be demarcated into 17,000 health blocks each to be made roughly of 10,000 prospective enrollees into the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
Pharmacists under the raegis of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) have appealed to the Federal Government to give imme-diate attention to the de-mands of striking health workers. FG to Extend Health Insurance Coverage to NYSC, Prison Inmates, Retirees
The federal government has said that plans were underway to extend health insurance policy to cover National Youth Service Corps, prison inmates and retirees across the country in a move to reduce burden on the part of citizens.More...
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has appreciated the support of Global Fund and United State Agency for International Development (USAID) in building a magnificent Premier Medical Warehouse to manage the drugs distribution system in Nigeria.
The Federal Government yesterday said it would set up cancer care centres in its tertiary institutions to reverse the rising trend of medical tourism. It is therefore seeking the support of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other development partners to actualise the plan.Director says universal health coverage attainable through primary healthcare
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, has said that Nigeria would attain Universal Health Coverage (UHC) using Primary Health Care as a tool.
Moeti said this at a press briefing organised by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, at the end of the visit of the WHO director to Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja.
Prof. Oladapo Shittu, an Obstetrics and Gynaecologist from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, on Tuesday called for a unified healthcare system to improve Nigeria’s health sector.
Shittu said this on the sideline of a symposium on the post MDGs: Maternal and Child Health in Nigeria at the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in Lagos.
