HEALTH

Air Pollution FG Closed Asphalt Plant In Port Harcourt

Daily Dispatch February 15, 2017

The Federal Government has declared the air pollution in Port Harcourt an emergency situation and closed an asphalt plant there after residents complained about the fumes from its furnaces. Residents staged a protest in Port Harcourt, a harbor city in the oil-producing Niger Delta region,

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Palm Oil Intake May Cause Cancer – Expert

Daily Dispatch February 14, 2017

A European safety agency has said that substances produced when palm oil is processed at high temperatures may cause cancer, based on animal studies. According to WebMD, the agency studied harmful substances that form during food processing when vegetable oils are heated to temperatures of 392 F or higher. The highest levels of these substances, known as […]

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Why Buhari Travelled To UK For Medical Treatment – Health Minister

Daily Dispatch February 13, 2017

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Monday said President Muhammadu Buhari and his medical doctors were the only competent set of people who could say why he had to be treated in a foreign hospital. The minister said this in an interview with journalists on the sidelines of the inauguration of Central Pharmacy […]

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Taiwan Raises Bird Flu Alert

Daily Dispatch February 13, 2017

Taiwan raised its bird flu alert on Monday after the highly pathogenic virus strain killed over 3,000 birds at a turkey farm in the west of the country, the government said. Taiwan recently confirmed that the H5N6 avian flu virus had been discovered in a dead gosling found on the roadside in Hualien County in […]

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HIV/AIDS Cure: FG Probes Claim

Daily Dispatch February 10, 2017

The National Health Research Ethics Committee, Federal Ministry of Health, said it had requested University of Agriculture,Umudike, Abia, to provide details of the clinical trial of the claim for cure of HIV/AIDS. Prof. Maduike Ezeibe, a Professor of Veterinary Medicine at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike and others claimed they had conducted clinical

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UNFPA Praises Nigeria’s Ban On Genital Mutilation

Daily Dispatch February 6, 2017

  The UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) has recognized Nigeria and the Gambia as countries among others that have banned female genital mutilation. The UNFPA, in a report on the of 2017 International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, commemorated on Feb. 6, stressed the urgent need to abandon the practice. Female […]