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 […]
On the verge of death, Ndidi seeks N6m for kidney transplant
“I thought we could manage just as we had been doing since 2002. But it was when the doctor told me, last year, that the option left for my daughter to live was to undergo a kidney transplant, that it dawned on me that it was a great task the family could not handle all alone
Janssen-Ciliag tackles counterfeiting with MAS
IN a renewed effort at combating the counterfeiting, diversion, tampering and trademark infringement of pharmaceutical products in the country, Janssen-Cilag pharmaceuticals with support of Johnson and Johnson of United States, has introduced a national anti-counterfeit Mobile Authentication Service
FG tasked on autism research …As Int. confab holds in Ghana
The Federal Government has been enjoined to show commitment towards the plight of Nigerians living with autism by funding epidemiology research on the condition which has been found to be common than childhood cancer, juvenile diabetes and paediatric AIDS combined.
Hospital strikes hike treatment fees in Lagos
PERSONS seeking comprehensive healthcare in private hospitals in Lagos and environs are now paying higher than usual to obtain such services
Health expert says donation, subsidized imported drugs is killing local industries
Chairman Board of Coriander Resources Limited, Sola Solarin has warned that continual acceptance of donation from multilateral funds that donate imported drugs at subsidized rates below cost of manufacture to the Nigerian market is killing local pharmaceutical industries in the country.
