2023-08-10 09:38
The Federal Government has appealed to the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), to call off its ongoing indefinite strike. The Permanent Secretary, Fe… Read More
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2023-08-09 13:24
In promoting the act of optimal breastfeeding among nursing mothers, the Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Prof. Mojisola… Read More
2023-08-09 11:45
Pharm. Obiageri Ethel Ikwu is the chief executive officer, Lopez Pharmacy and Stores Limited, Ojo, Lagos. She is a health information advocate, with a special interest in vacci… Read More
2023-08-09 11:17
– Relaunches Clement Okonkwo Onyechi Foundation The expansive events hall of Marriot Hotels, Ikeja, Lagos, was filled to the brim and reverberated with accolades, as dignitaries… Read More
2023-08-08 13:00
Prof. Chibueze Peter Ihekwereme is the dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State. He took over from Prof. Festus Basden Chinedu Okoye. Born and… Read More
2023-08-08 11:32
A Nutritionist, Ms Uju Onuorah, has called on stakeholders to support breastfeeding mothers who experienced certain challenges that made breastfeeding an onerous task for some… Read More
2023-08-08 10:44
On Saturday, 25 July 2020, Professor Bukola Oladunni Salami was announced as an inductee in the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame – the highest research award in Nursi… Read More
2023-08-08 10:26
Professor Wasiu Adeyemo, the chief medical director, (CMD) of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), has advised new medical doctors from the University of Ilorin to shun … Read More
2023-08-07 20:58
Professor Azuka Oparah, Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Benin (UNIBEN) has won the intensely contested award for the Dean of the Year 2023, having polled a total of 15… Read More
2023-08-07 12:19
Some pregnant women have appealed to the Federal Government to meet the needs of the striking resident doctors so they can return to work and offer healthcare services to Nigerians. T… Read More
2023-08-07 11:48
The decision of the federal government to reduce drug importation from 60 to 40 percent came as a welcome development to stakeholders in the health sector, especially because it would… Read More
2023-08-07 11:25
The Lagos State Government has directed the General Manager, Lagos State Infrastructure and Asset Management Agency (LASIAMA) Mrs Adenike Adekanbi, to proceed on an indefinite suspens… Read More
2023-08-06 19:12
The ongoing strike action, recently embarked upon by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), has further highlighted the precarious levity with which the Nigerian… Read More
2023-08-05 20:43
The economic outlook, as we already know, is tough. Prices of products and services are going up. Naira is losing value. The purchasing power of buyers is becoming weaker, which has c… Read More
2023-08-05 07:00
Every worker looks forward to and appreciates promotion by the employer. Promotion is a reward, indicating that the worker has demonstrated greater responsibility, productivity and va… Read More
2023-08-04 22:35
As a means of providing healthcare palliative for people living with non-communicable diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, among others, Diabetes Control Me… Read More
2023-08-04 13:15
A British multinational pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), has disclosed its intention to exit Nigeria after 5 decades of operation in the country. The biotechnology… Read More
2023-08-04 09:36
River State commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDELA), Mr Ahmed Mamuda, has advised Nigerian Association of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers Practiti… Read More
2023-08-03 13:29
As 2023 Annual ACPN Conference begins in Delta. Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State has said that to build a healthcare system that leaves no one behind, where quality hea… Read More
2023-08-03 11:45
A reputable media organisation has job openings for a Web Journalist and Secretary/Subscription Executive, with very attractive salary packages. Below are the job specification… Read More
2023-08-03 07:27
The Nigerian Medical Association, Lagos State Chapter, has declared an indefinite strike action in three major hospitals in the state, following the death of its member, Dr Vwa… Read More
2023-08-02 09:57
Shalina Healthcare, a leading pharmaceutical company in the country has officially unveiled a popular Nigerian actor, film producer, model, and philanthropist, Bolanl… Read More
2023-08-02 09:27
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said improved breastfeeding practices can save more than 100,000 children each year in Nigeria and $22 million in healthca… Read More
2023-08-02 08:57
–As Delta First Lady, Pharmacists Walk for Vaccination As part of activities lined up for the ongoing 42nd ACPN National Conference 2023, tagged ‘The Big Heart’, members of… Read More
2023-08-01 14:13
The Kano State Government has approved the removal of three Chief Medical Officers with the suspension of some nurses and doctors for matters relating to negligence, lateness t… Read More
2023-08-01 12:54
A former childcare worker in Australia has been charged with the crime of sexually abusing 91 young girls, in what has been described as one of the worst child sex abuse… Read More
2023-08-01 12:16
Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso says Gov. Seyi Makinde’s urgent intervention is needed… Read More
2023-07-31 11:55
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has opened a new office in the Ota/Agbara axis, of Ogun State at the weekend. NAFDAC Director General… Read More
2023-07-31 08:25
The Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (WAPA) in collaboration with the Nigerian COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus programme (NG-CARES) has rei… Read More
2023-07-31 07:06
The Health Officials in Ondo, Ekiti and Osun states are not complacent or leaving anything to chance in their response to cases of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). Neglected… Read More
2023-07-29 14:20
The Food and Beverage Recycling Alliance (FBRA) has expressed commitment to the Federal Government on review of the draft plastic waste control regulation. Ms Araghase O… Read More
2023-07-29 13:18
A group of music enthusiasts has urged Nigerians to imbibe the habit of listening to music. According to them, music is a therapeutic tool for relaxation and stress management… Read More
2023-07-28 16:17
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged people across the globe to be mindful of their liver health, as it is a critical organ in the human body that performs over 500 vi… Read More
2023-07-28 13:39
The hazard allowance of non-hospital-based health professionals in the country, including those with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC); The Nigeria Ce… Read More
2023-07-28 09:30
The College of Medicine (CMUL), University of Lagos (UNILAG), has rehabilitated its main auditorium and vows to make it a world-class research-intensive medical college. Prof… Read More
2023-07-27 22:07
World Vision U.S., an international NGO, has charged the people of Langkaku, Jos South Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau, to embrace immunisation and curb infant morbidity and mo… Read More
2023-07-27 14:35
It was a very elating and memorable moment for Pharm. (Sir) Ifeanyi Atueyi, publisher and managing director, Pharmanews, at the hall of the Dolly Hills Hotels, Onitsha, venue o… Read More
2023-07-26 14:12
The Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Lagos (UNILAG), has called for joint collaboration in research and practice to reach the grassroots. The clinical scienti… Read More
2023-07-26 09:08
Doctors under the aegis of Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have commenced an indefinite strike. NARD President, Dr Emeka Orji, said the indefinite industrial action wh… Read More
2023-07-25 11:17
– Says association’s labelling machine to be launched at forthcoming conference Worried by the challenge of medicine insecurity in the country, which it says is being driv… Read More
2023-07-25 09:15
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday harped on the need to incorporate local diets into food systems, noting that by doing this, the world could foster a culture of pr… Read More
2023-07-25 08:34
Should these two get married? In the last edition, we began a conversation on how to leverage graphology as a profiling tool in selecting a spouse. It has been established already tha… Read More
2023-07-24 14:20
The Society for Family Health has renewed its commitment to charting a path that will end AIDS in Nigeria. The NGO said the path would help to prepare for and tackle future pan… Read More
2023-07-23 16:04
Prior to attaining puberty, 15-year-old Tolani had heard much about menstruation and eagerly looked forward to the experience. Unknown to her, the commencement of her menses wo… Read More
2023-07-23 13:38
In this exclusive interview with MOSES DIKE, eminent community pharmacist and managing director of Ladith Pharmaceutical Limited, Pharm. (Dr) Lawrence Ifebigh, speaks about his… Read More
2023-07-22 17:45
For Nigeria to achieve self-sufficiency in local pharmaceutical manufacturing, which will bring about a change in the narrative of 70 per cent importation and 30 per cent local… Read More
2023-07-22 13:45
The Fifth Annual International Conference of the National Association of Foreign Trained Pharmacists (NAFTraph) is scheduled to hold from 12 to 14 October, 2023 at Sheraton Hotel and Towers… Read More
2023-07-21 18:27
The Nigeria Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has commended foremost health management organisation, Avon Healthcare Limited, for blazing the trail in rolling out a new range o… Read More
2023-07-21 10:00
The growing importance of technology to leadership success Technology is integral to our daily lives in today’s fast-paced world. Technology has transformed our lives and work, from sm… Read More
2023-07-21 08:25
The Enugu Government has urged its residents not to panic as the Ministry for Agriculture and Rural Development is on alert and proactive to prevent anthrax outbreak in the sta… Read More
2023-07-21 06:54
Members of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan on Thursday embarked on a three-week industrial action. President… Read More
2023-07-20 11:26
Director General, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) Prof. Babatunde Salako, has urged the government to support vaccination for animals and their handlers to curb t… Read More
2023-07-20 11:08
A medical expert, Prof. Zubairu Iliyasu has cautioned Nigerians living with epilepsy and sickle cell to desist from visiting and patronising quacks to avoid complication and im… Read More
2023-07-20 10:36
…As Ikeja Zone takes free health screening to Alade Market Community pharmacists under the auspices of the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, ACPN, Lagos State Ch… Read More
2023-07-19 20:10
– Cautions against the consumption of carbide ripened fruits The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said it will no longer be business as usual f… Read More
2023-07-19 14:02
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says the ideal method of disposing an anthrax carcass is incineration. The Director General of NCDC, Dr Ifedayo Adet… Read More
2023-07-19 11:51
The Nigerian Association of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Scientists in the Americas (NAPPSA) has postponed it International Workshop on API-Excipients, earlier scheduled for 1 to 3 August… Read More
2023-07-18 12:05
A university don and Chairman, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Osun State Chapter, Prof. Moses Atanda Akanmu, has called for adequate funding by government and wealthy indivi… Read More
2023-07-18 10:57
The President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) Prof. Cyril Odianose Usifoh, recently visited the WHO state-of-the-art manufacturing factory of Bond Chemical and I… Read More
2023-07-18 10:55
Following the nomination exercise for the Dean of the Year 2023, which ended 12 July 2023, a specially constituted panel has conducted background checks on nominees with the hi… Read More
2023-07-17 18:58
The Nigerian government through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) has confirmed the first case of Anthrax disease. FMARD in an official statement on Mo… Read More
2023-07-17 13:40
Sharing of sanitation facilities like toilets among households has been identified as one of the practices that compromise women’s and girls’ safety, privacy, and d… Read More
2023-07-17 11:46
The Association of Fetomaternal Medicine Specialists of Nigeria (AFEMSON), has appealed to the Federal Government to establish dedicated maternal and newborn referral hospitals in all… Read More
2023-07-17 11:21
A Professor of Pharmacy Management at the University of Lagos, Professor Emmanuel Nwanolue Anyika, has called on pharmacists and other healthcare professionals in the country t… Read More
2023-07-15 19:07
Founder and President, West Africa Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (WASPEN) Dr Teresa Isichei Pounds, has charged the Federal Ministry of Health to initiate a multi… Read More
2023-07-15 09:12
The African breadfruit, botanically known as Treculia africana (Fam. Moraceae), is commonly eaten by the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria. Ukwa is commonly called asa dagaa, gayo o… Read More
2023-07-14 15:11
The importance of mentorship for professional growth and national development has been brought to the fore at the 5th Public Lecture of the Board of Fellows of the Pharmaceutic… Read More
2023-07-14 09:17
At the glitzy Research Dinner, organised by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) on 20 April to recognise the latest outstanding efforts to find a cure for diabetes, the name of Pr… Read More
2023-07-14 08:53
This piece was written in commemoration of this year’s Fathers Day, marked on 18 June, 2023. Globally, certain health issues are more associated with men than women. Our… Read More
2023-07-13 14:59
– Say private providers must be involved in implementation Despite their misgivings about the new National Health Insuranc Authority (NHIA), healthcare providers, under the aegi… Read More
2023-07-13 14:19
The recent decision by the Federal Government of Nigeria to reduce drug importation in the country from 60 to 40 per cent is a step in the right direction and a fulfilment of t… Read More
2023-07-13 11:36
When it comes to the world of entrepreneurship, there are valuable lessons that can be learnt from unexpected sources. Children, with their boundless curiosity, infectious excitement… Read More
2023-07-12 09:01
Pharm. (Dr) Dorcas Nyalas-Omeire is the current head of Pharmacy Unit at the University of Lagos Medical Centre; and chairman, Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered), UNILAG Cha… Read More
2023-07-12 08:54
A Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Vincent Udenze, has charged members of the Association of Lady Pharmacists (ALPs) to drive the formulation of policies to regulate the dispensing… Read More
2023-07-11 21:26
Mr Oladepo Lawal-Solarin, a speaker at the event, receiving a plaque from Pharm. Olumide Akintayo, chairman of the occasion, and Pharm. Ernest Okafor, chairman, PWDAN The leadership of… Read More
2023-07-11 12:06
It is no longer news that the Federal Government of Nigeria has stopped the subsidisation of petrol. One of the direct and immediate implications of this development is the increase i… Read More
2023-07-11 11:14
The Nigeria Medical Association, Nasarawa State Council, has suspended its five-day warning strike. This was disclosed by the chairman, Dr Peter Attah, during a press briefing with jo… Read More
2023-07-11 07:10
The Federal Ministry of Health has urged Nigerians to make conscious efforts to avoid contracting diphtheria, adding that everyone is at risk of being infected with the disease. The m… Read More
2023-07-10 12:08
The Country Representative of the United Nations Population Fund in Nigeria, Ulla Mueller, has called for an end to Female Genital Mutilation, saying the practice is a violatio… Read More
2023-07-10 09:45
Pharmanews is the largest circulating health periodical, covering all the 36 states of Nigeria and beyond. Pharmanews continues to break new grounds in health reportage and has established a… Read More
2023-07-10 09:35
A Professor of Pharmacy Management at the University of Lagos, Professor Emmanuel Nwanolue Anyika, has called for the introduction of more management courses in the faculties o… Read More
2023-07-10 09:00
Although the Bible has a lot of doctrines on helping the poor, needy, and fatherless, widows and indeed all those who need help, an experience I had at JFK International Airport in Se… Read More
2023-07-08 18:44
The Society for Family Health (SFH) has expressed concern over non-inclusion of Nigeria in list of selected African countries to benefit from malaria vaccine roll out. The soci… Read More
2023-07-08 18:28
–Lauds FG’s initiative to boost local manufacturing The concepts of entrepreneurship and mentorship will form the focal points of discussion at the 2023 Mid-Year Meeting o… Read More
2023-07-07 21:42
The Liberian government and a Nigerian organisation, African Diseases Prevention and Research Development Initiative have collaborated to reduce the burden of Tuberculosis in L… Read More
2023-07-07 21:08
Director General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Ghebreyesus, has expressed concern over imminent food insecurity in the Horn of Africa due to the climate crisi… Read More
2023-07-07 09:56
For the new policy of the Federal Government to reduce drug importation from 60 to 40 per cent to be a reality, the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has insisted that the gover… Read More
2023-07-06 10:32
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has trained 25 police officers in Adamawa on protection of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) survivors during emergencies to strengthen acc… Read More
2023-07-06 09:50
Members of the Pharm.D.S.Wali’s Book Project Committee, have announced the date for the 9th in the series of the Pharm.D.S.Wali Lecture, which is Monday, 24 July, 2023. T… Read More
2023-07-06 09:22
The Nigerian Association of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Scientists in the Americas, Inc. (NAPPSA) in collaboration with the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN), National Institute fo… Read More
2023-07-05 19:17
P Former Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has urged government and other stakeholders to set up framework to encourage early diagnosis and access to affordable treatment and ma… Read More
2023-07-05 13:13
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) says 189,310 children in the South-West geopolitical zone lack access to or were never reached by routine immunisation fro… Read More
2023-07-05 12:37
The Lagos State government, through its Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), says 75 per cent of survivors have prior knowledge of their partner’s abusive behaviou… Read More
2023-07-05 10:24
Smile360 Dental Specialist Clinic has clinched the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Award (NHEA) for the seventh year for delivering exceptional dental services and setting the benchmar… Read More
2023-07-04 14:20
Nett Pharmacy, one of the leading retail outlets in the country, which has been a regular nominee at the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Awards ceremony, has eventually bagged t… Read More
2023-07-04 10:19
The Federal Government on Monday appointed Professor Lateef Salawu, as the Acting Medical Director of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife. Osun State. The Perman… Read More
2023-07-04 09:48
The Oyo State Health Insurance Agency has expressed readiness to support and collaborate with the University College Hospital, Ibadan on research. The OYSHIA Executive Secretary, Dr… Read More
2023-07-04 09:17
The outbreak of diphtheria, a serious infection caused by strains of bacteria called Corynebacterium diphtheriae that produces toxins, has been announced in some parts of Abuja… Read More
2023-07-03 14:19
The Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu State, has called on wealthy individuals, groups and establishments to assist mentally challenged patients, especially those abandoned by relativ… Read More
2023-07-03 11:46
Should these two get married? For someone who is not a regular reader of this column, this caption may seem unfathomable. How on earth can one select his or her spouse by looki… Read More
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