HEALTH

CSO Urges FG To Raise Taxes, Prices Of Tobacco To Reduce Consumption

Daily Dispatch July 16, 2017

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has called on the Federal Government to raise taxes on and prices of tobacco to reduce its consumption in the country. Mr Auwal Rafsanjani, Executive Director, CISLAC said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, insisting that such measure

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Sedentary lifestyles cause heart related diseases-Cardiologist

Daily Dispatch July 11, 2017

Dr Ogunmodede James, a consultant cardiologist, on Tuesday advised the public to avoid sedentary lifestyles to prevent heart related diseases. James told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Omu-Aran, Kwara, that lifestyles with little or no physical activities could hamper functions of the heart in humans. The expert, who works at the University of […]

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Gonorrhoea: Hope for possible vaccine

Daily Dispatch July 11, 2017

For the first time, a vaccine a vaccine has tested positive to abilities to act as protection against gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection. Sscientists in New Zealand say study of 15,000 young people, published in the Lancet, showed infections were cut by about a third. This is coming after the World Health Organisation in a recent publication […]

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HIV/AIDS: 1m Nigerians may die by 2022 – DG NACA

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2017

Dr. Sani Aliyu, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, has said Nigeria must take full sponsorship of its HIV/AIDS programme or risk losing one million of its citizens currently living with the disease before 2022. Aliyu stated this while fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja on Sunday. He […]

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Lassa Fever hits FGC, Langtang, I student confirmed dead

Daily Dispatch July 9, 2017

Plateau health commissioner Kuden Deyin has confirmed the death of one student, while two others have been hospitalised, following an outbreak of Lassa Fever at the Federal Government College, Langtang. “Yes, there was an outbreak of Lassa Fever at the Federal Government College, Langtang; it has claimed one life while two others are in the […]

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How N58m SUV landed NHIS ES in trouble — and earned him suspension

Daily Dispatch July 7, 2017

Usman Yusuf, executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), has been suspended for three months by the minister of health, Isaac Adewole, over allegations of fraud. In a letter dated July 6, 2017 seen by TheCable, Adewole said Yusuf’s response to the petitions written against him were “considered unsatisfactory”. An investigative committee to […]