The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), First Cardiology Consultant, Dr Adeyemi Johnson, says treatments for most cardiac diseases are now available in Nigeria. Johnson made the assertion in his keynote address at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, 4th International Scientific Conference with the theme: “Interventional Cardiology:Advancing the Frontiers in Cardiovascular Care”. The sub theme of the conference is “Maintaining Ethical Standards in Healthcare Research”. Johnson, a Cardiologist, explained that interventional cardiology was a branch of cardiology where rather than doing heart surgery, the procedure goes through the blood vessels to fix the problem in the heart. “It is sort…
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A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, admitted Mrs Chioma Okoli to N5 million bail with two sureties in like sum over allegations bordering on her online commentary on Erisco Foods Limited’s tomato paste.
The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) has sealed off 355 pharmacies and patent medicines shops in Jigawa for various offenses.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has unveiled the National Sequencing Consortium to strengthen public health security in the country.
The number of dengue cases worldwide has been increasing over the past five years, with a particularly alarming situation in the Americas this year.
Africa needs to close a financing gap of about 402.2 billion dollars annually by 2030 to fast-track its structural transformation, the AfDB says.
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja Branch, on Thursday held the maiden edition of its business forum to point out economic opportunities presented by Artificial Intelligence (AI) for economic growth.
The House of Representatives Committee on Finance has asked the Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission(NIPC), to explain why it spent 20 per cent of its revenue without authorisation.
Stakeholders in the engineering sector, have called on the Federal Government to leverage the Inter-Basin Water Transfer (IBWT) technology to boost food security in Nigeria.
The Federal Government has shut an illegal mining site at Guabe in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as part of its efforts to combat illegal mining. The operation was carried out by officials of the Mining Marshal Corp, inaugurated on March 21 by the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Dele Alake, to secure the mining environment and sanitise the sector. The corp has 2,220 personnel who have been specially trained as a rapid response squad and deployed across the 36 states and the FCT. The minister’s Special Assistant on Media, Mr Segun Tomori, said in…