Lions Club Donates Ophthalmic Equipment To LASUTH
The Lions Clubs International, District 404 B2, on Friday, 15th September, 2023, made delivery of Ophthalmic Equipment to the Ophthalmology Department of theLagos State University...
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GE HealthCare Awarded $44m Grant To Develop Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Ultrasound Technology
Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will facilitate development of AI-assisted applications and tools to enable healthcare professionals with less experience to perform quick...
Global Calls To Elevate Voice Of Patients As World Marks Patient Safety Day 2023
This year, World Patient Safety Day 2023 is being celebrated around the theme “Engaging patients for patient safety”, in recognition of the central role that...
Governing Council Tours Facilities At LASU College Of Medicine
Members of the 12th Governing Council of Lagos State University, on Monday, 11th September 2023 began the periodic Tour of Campuses/Facilities of the University at...
How HIV/Aids Drugs Are Being Used To Fatten Pigs In Uganda
Ugandan MPs have been told that the drug authorities have known for years that anti-retroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV/Aids have been fed to...
Funding Crisis Threatens Africa’s Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
BY OKAFOR AUGUSTINE IZUCHUKWU With chronic underfunding threatening Africa’s fight to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases, health officials and donors meeting for the World...
Liberia: Halting The Spread Of Ebola In Male Survivors
Ebola survivor Randall Varney lost nine family members, including his parents and seven siblings, to the virus in just three months in 2014, before himself...
WHO: Protecting Every Child From Poliovirus
BY IGBINOSUN OSARENREN In the remote Nigerian village of Bororo-Kambari, five-year-old Fati Isah and her two siblings are lining up with other children their age...
United States Partners Woman-Owned Nigerian Company To Fight Malnutrition
On Thursday, August 10, the United States government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), signed a new private sector partnership with Emzor Food...