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Malnutrition: Why Plateau must actualise infant nutrition in communities

Correct and proper infant nutrition is fundamental to a child’s continued health. From birth through adulthood, and feeding in the first three years o

HIV: US CDC activates programme against mother-to-child transmission in 13 states

The US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) has established 126 congregations of its Baby Shower Programme across 13 states in Nigeria.

Gene Breakthrough: Overweight baby girls at risk of premature puberty — Study

Girls who are overweight in childhood may be at greater risk of early puberty, genetic research has revealed. In the largest study of its kind to date

NEPWHAN decries shortage of testing kits for malaria, HIV in 5 Sokoto LGAs

The Network of People Living With HIV in Nigeria (NEPWHAN) has decried the shortage of HIV test kits in some health facilities across five LGAs of Sok

‘Nigeria to commence local production of active pharmaceutical ingredient’

Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries Limited is set to soon set up a plant for the production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) in Nigeria, the Dir