Sam EFERARO

ABUJA - The Federal Government has inaugurated the Governing Council for the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN. The inauguration, done last Friday, followed months of protests by the Nigerian Medical Association that its members…

• Says nation in ‘demographic trouble’ with its uncontrolled births ABUJA - Nigeria has recorded 58 million increase in its population since it last conducted its population census in 2006, the Association for the Advancement of…

• NHO, in collaboration with Roche, holds 2018 WDD Media Round table Round Table Faculty (L-R): Accu-Chek Strategic Account Manager, Roche Products Limited Diabetes Care, Mrs Folasade Olufemi-Ajayi, Regional Sales Manager, Mr. Mubarak…

Prof. Folakemi Odedina is a cancer scientist and the convener of the first ever Clinical Trial Congress to be held in Nigeria on November 14-16. She is also the foremost researcher in prostate cancer among US blacks and has been at the…

Every 12 minutes, Nigeria looses one woman to due to complications of pregnancy and this, according to WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA, resulted in the death of 58,000 women, in 2015 alone during childbirth. These startling figures were released…

ABUJA - Leventis Foundation Nigeria has trained no less than 25,000 since it began operation in Nigeria in 1988, Executive Director of the foundation, Dr Hope Usieta, has said. Addressing journalists in Abuja recently at a symposium to…

•Patients speak on costs, burden of cancer in Nigeria Project Pink Blue, a non-governmental organization supporting indigent cancer patients and promoting advocacy on the disease, says it is set to launch a N100 million support fund…

If its current efforts are sustained  No case recorded in 25 months ABUJA - Executive Secretary, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) Dr Faisal Shuaib, on Monday, October 29, at the 36th meeting of Expert…

ABUJA - President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, directed embattled Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Yusuf Usman, to proceed on “administrative leave” with immediate effect. The President also empanelled a…

Education Minister canvases collaboration with corporate bodies The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has urged Nigerians to consistently coach children to think creatively in order to become champions while he called more…