Drug insecurity: Pharmacists urge Tinubu to shut open drug markets, warn of link to banditry
…Demands declaration of pharmaceutical insecurity as national security threat …Says diverted tramadol, other controlled medicines fuel terrorism, violent crimes …Hails NLC, TUC, JOHESU over 19 months’ arrears, CONHESS adjustment By Chioma Obinna The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, has urged President Bola Tinubu to declare pharmaceutical insecurity a national security threat, warning that the proliferation […]
Veg diet boosts your immune system
The better our immune system works, the better for us. Our body is designed to fight off diseases and infections caused by viruses and bacteria. Our immune system does not even surrender to cancer – and also not Ebola as written at this column space last week.
How Ebola-infected patients are ‘cured’
Medical Director of Specialised Infectious Disease unit at the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Dr.Bruce Ribner has stated that, in general, patients who have recovered from Ebola virus infection have developed a very robust immunity to the virus.
Cathem: End in sight for blindness diseases in Nigeria
No thanks to the fact that it is a problem which encompasses several degrees of impaired sight, ranging from the simple impairments of sight, to a total lack of sight, is currently plaguing the Nigerian population.
Scientists ‘hunt’ malaria with magnets
A research team from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, SMART, has devised a way to use magnetic resonance relaxometry,MRR, a close cousin of magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, to detect a parasitic waste product in the blood of malaria- infected patients.
Infant seeks N2.4m for corrective heart surgery
The prayer of every couple is the blessing of the fruit of the womb. When this prayer was answered for the family of Henry and Oluchi Mekwunye, and Master Emmanuel was born, little did anyone realise that he came with a health challenge.
