CALABAR—WIVES of five governors in the country, who are medical doctors, have joined forces to fight cancer, the ailment presently ravaging many Nigerians.

The Federal government has been urged to review the duty placed on imported drugs even as well as improve infrastructural support for local manufacturers.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has arrested three manufacturers of fake codeine cough syrup and wines in Delta State even as it threatened to clampdown on importers, distributors and marketers still stocking banned regulated products.

The idea that any medication available without a prescription is safe to take can be a dangerous one for those with diabetes, who risk spikes in blood glucose and blood pressure by taking the wrong medication for something as simple as the common cold, according to a researcher at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy, who said that nonprescription medications can have contraindications and drug interactions similar to those posed by prescription medications.

A non-governmental organization, Crimsonbow Sickle Cell Initiative is organizing a programme aimed at educating the people, especially the unprivileged on sickle cell prevention and management.