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Heavy drinking linked to greater risk for alcohol-related cancers

Heavy drinking increases the risk for injury and alcohol-related cancers, a new study reports. Strategies are needed to curb alcohol abuse, particular

Doctors demand regulatory commission for health practitioners

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called for a Medical Services Commission, fashioned after the Judicial Service Commission, to address short

Good bye ‘MDGs’ and welcome ‘SDGs’

The last 15 years have been unprecedented all over the world with one clarion call ‘implement Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and achieve al

My mum is vomiting blood

I write to seek further information about the causes and potential treatment of vomiting blood because my mum is doing so, and has been taken to the h

‘Eye care not accorded proper attention by govt, health managers’

Dr Barka David Lass is an ophthalmologist and the medical director of Jordan Eye Hospital in Dogon-Karfe, Jos, Plateau State. In this interview, he sp