Patients visiting hospital emergency rooms with serious lacerations may soon be sent home with 'just a plaster.'
Startup company KitoTech Medical has unveiled microMend, a new type of wound dressing that would be as strong as staples or stitches. Patients that would normally require a surgical procedure from a doctor could instead be sent home with the high-tech plaster applied by a nurse.
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Heath, Prof. Isaac Adewole to investigate reports of an ‘unknown disease’ killing children in Jigawa State.
Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has revealed that, the federal government has set aside N3.5 billion for measles vaccination of 33 million under five children across the country.
The minister told journalists in Kaduna on Tuesday shortly after he demonstrated the vaccination at Miyetti Allah primary healthcare centre, Rigasa, Igabi local government area of Kaduna State that, N2.5 billion has already being released to ensure the success of the programme.
Drug maker, Roche has won U.S. approval to market its skin cancer drug Zelboraf for certain patients with Erdheim-Chester Disease, a rare type of blood cancer.
Activities at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) were grounded in the early hour of Monday as contract staff protested non-payment of their six month salaries.
EUROPEAN nurses working in the NHS are leaving the UK in droves after Brexit, the Nursing and Midwifery Council has claimed.
Their latest statistics show 4067 nurses from the EU left their job last year, a rise of around 67 per cent from 2435 in the previous year.
