[ad_1] Economy Foreign investors pull out Sh24 billion from NSE in 2022 Thursday January 05 2023 Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) on the trading floor of the Exchange building. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NMG Foreign investors yanked Sh23.9 billion out of the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) in 2022, the highest outflows in three years, as…
[ad_1] Health Medics call off nationwide strike after talks Thursday January 05 2023 Dr Davji Atellah. FILE PHOTO | NMG Doctors have suspended a nationwide strike over failure to implement the 2017-2021 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) after a consultative meeting with officials from the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Council of Governors (CoG). The…
[ad_1] Segun Adewole and Onozure Dania The trial of Olufemi Olaleye, the doctor alleged to have defiled his 15-year-old wife’s niece continued on Wednesday as a medical doctor from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Oyebimpe Akinbunmi, told the court that the pattern of injury on the victim’s private parts showed repeated forceful penetration. Akinbunmi,…
[ad_1] “Nigeria is a rich country with a booming population of over 200 million people. While this richness is an advantage, the country’s human development has, however, been severely impacted by multidimensional poverty” — Clem Ikanade Agba (2022) The above statement is the first sentence of the National Multidimensional Poverty Index (2022) report’s foreword written…
[ad_1] Dele Ogunyemi The Nigerian Medical Association, South-South Zone, has threatened to shut down all hospitals in Delta State to protest against the murder of one of its members, Dr. Uyi Iluobe, by gunmen who attacked his hospital, Olive Clinic, at Oghareki, in the Ethiope West Local Government Area on New Year’s Eve. The Chairman…
[ad_1] From Sola Ojo, Kaduna A non-governmental organisation called Lacey Health Initiative with support from Access Bank have trained 28 young girls in Sabon Gari Local Government Area of Kaduna State as Gender Based Violence (SGBV) advocates and champion. In Kaduna State, there are laws and policies such as the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP)…
[ad_1] The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said its COVID-19 Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) is monitoring COVID-19 trends in countries with a “high volume of traffic to and from Nigeria.” The NCDC noted in a statement Wednesday that the countries which include China, the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK),…
[ad_1] By PAULINE KAIRU Trials on three separate vaccine regimens for the Ebola virus have returned positive results on their safety, promising an adequate roll-out of inoculation campaigns against one of the deadliest viral diseases. The results from a large-scale randomised clinical trial on one of the candidate vaccines in West Africa also showed that…
[ad_1] (Global Times) 14:35, January 05, 2023 Photo: Li Hao/GT As COVID-19 infection curve has already peaked in several major Chinese cities such as Beijing, Global Times reporters talked to several major hospitals to see for medical workers, whether the “hardest time” has already passed. Doctors said that the number of patients admitted into emergency…
[ad_1] In recent years, researchers and clinicians have been able to use biomarkers to identify, detect, monitor, and even predict diseases before it progresses. By measuring specific substances in the body, biomarkers can provide invaluable information about an individual’s overall health, which helps guide treatment decisions and improve health outcomes. Unfortunately, reliable and accurate biomarkers…
