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ABIM Appoints Akinboboye, First Black Chair of Cardiovascular Disease Board
The American Board of Internal Medicine, ABIM, has announced the appointment of Olakunle Akinboboye, MD as chair of the ABIM Cardiovascular Board. The appointment of Akinboboye by the 81…
Ebola: Kenya Airways to be sanctioned for bringing corps from DR Congo into Nigeria
Health Minister, Isaac Adewale Nigeria may sanction Keyan Airways for conveying a corpse from Ebola-affected Democratic Republic of Congo to Nigeria. The Lagos State commissioner for health, Dr. Jide…
PACFaH seeks increase role for media in reportage of health budget issues
As a way of ensuring that government meets her commitment towards adequate funding of the health sector, the Partnership Advocacy for Child and Family Health (PACFaH) has urged the media…
NAFDAC destroys substandard drugs worth N9.6 billion
The National Agency for Foods Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has destroyed substandard pharmaceutical products in Igwurita, near Port Harcourt. Commenting on this, the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole,…
Neighboring countries ban Nigerian poultry products …as bird flu hits 26 states, FCT
Nigerian neighboring countries are currently proposing to ban all poultry products from Nigeria following an out break of new strain of Avian Influenza virus, popularly known as bird flu. Disclosing…
HEWAN, Sebeccly collaborate on cervical cancer screening for women, girls
As part of efforts to reduce cervical cancer among Nigerian women, Sebeccly Cancer Care and Support Centre in partnership with Health Writers Association of Nigeria, HEWAN, weekend, carried out free…
Aid continues despite attack on humanitarian convoy in northeast Nigeria: UNICEF
Following the recent attack on humanitarian convoy that included staff from UNICEF, UNFPA, and IOM in which one UNICEF staff member was injured in the northeast Nigeria, travel by UN…
Health experts to brainstorm on emerging deadly diseases
Given the resilience nature of emerging deadly diseases threatening the African continent, global health experts, policy makers, scientists, healthcare professionals, and others will storm Lagos between 27 and 29 July,…
Ebola: Insurance sector assures competence in risks mitigation
As the dreaded disease, Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) continue to spread across West African countries with its attendant scourge on lives and economies, the need for insurance as a succor…
