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Centre for rape victims to open in Lagos

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•Trains health workers, counsellors

RESPITE may have come the way of rape victims and all forms of sexual assaults in Nigeria, as a Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) is set to take off at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital...
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Survivors, victims’ relatives launch aggressive campaign against cancer

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• Plan acquisition of mobile cancer treatment centre

• Comprehensive specialised medical centre to gulp $30m

• Nigeria needs 37 or more centres

DISTHRAUGHTED by the soaring numbers of victims to one of the world’s deadliest infectious...
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Nigeria’s health indices uninspiring, say Fayemi, Soyinka

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Fayemi-12-1-13EKITI State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, was among several Nigerians who scored Nigeria’s health indices low in a gathering of health experts at the 8th memorial lecture of   Nigeria’s former Minister of Health, late Prof. Olikoye Ransome...
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How cancer drug damages mouse hearts

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HEART damage from chemotherapy may be due to leaky pipes. Sunitinib, a cancer drug known to harm heart tissue, wipes out cells that seal blood vessels, Vishnu Chintalgattu of the biotech company Amgen and colleagues report May 29 in Science...
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Study links milk intake in mothers to better IQ in children

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Glass-of-milk*As FrieslandCampina commemorates day

As countries commemorate the World Milk Day (WMD) 2013, researchers have advised women who are pregnant or planning to have children to consume the right amount of iodine, which is found in milk, or risk...
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