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Dr Shirley Vasu spend her entire career dey work wit dead body and she don  perform over 20,000 autopsies. She tok to di BBC about di crimes she help to uncover and di closure she bring to di bereaved. 

Di autopsy doctor wey don see death for evri stage of life

Senior research scientist for NHSBT, Louise Tilley tok say dis discovery mean say dem go fit offer beta care to rare patients.

Scientists don find new blood group afta 50-year mystery

Madu Chisom look back to di journey of how im overcome di tumour and di period im consider to kpai im sef.

'Living wit gland tumour for ten years almost make me question God'

Resident doctors strike don really affect goment hospitals as patients no fit get doctor to attend to dem.

'Na we dey suffer doctors strike, e dey painful' - Patients lament

Police say dem no pay any ransom for di release of about 20 medical students and some doctors wey bin dey travel wen jaguda pipo kidnap dem.

Police confam release of medical doctors, odas wey jaguda pipo kidnap

Oropouche fever, one communicable disease without medicine or vaccine, don cause di first recorded human deaths. But wetin e be and how dem fit diagnose, treat and prevent am?

Wetin be Oropouche, di 'sloth virus' wey no get medicine or vaccine?

For 2013, Harish wey be civil engineering student fall from di fourth floor of one building for di northern Indian city of Chandigarh and get ogbonge head injuries. E never fit comot bed since den.


Why dis Indian mother dey fight for her son right to die

Di World Health Organization don declare di highly infectious disease, Mpox, as global health emergency on Wednesday.

WHO declare say Mpox na global health emergency

Di National Policy on Health Workforce Migration dey come afta plenti tori of how relocation of medical doctors, nurses and oda health personnel dey affect di kontri.

Five tins wey dey inside di healthcare policy wey President Tinubu approve to address workers wey dey japa from Nigeria

Malaria parasites wey fit do odeshi for di melecine, artemisinin don tanda gidigba for East Africa. 

Serious action needed as medicine no dey fit treat malaria again

Neuroscientist Jimo Borjigin don dey research wetin dey happen inside brain for our last moments.

Wetin dey happun for our brain as we die?

Di device dey send small small electrical signals for di boy brain to prevent am from having serious seizures due to epilepsy.

Boy wit epilepsy don get world first epilepsy device wey dem put inside im head

Which? carry out spot-checks on 26 sunscreens. Three lotions, from Calypso Sun, Bondi Sands and Asda no pass all di tests.

Sabi pipo say dem chook eye inside some popular sunscreens but dem fail protection tests

Suebat wey be di fourth child get older and younger siblings, and her mama want make she dey join dem go school make she no dey just stay for house wit her grandmother wey be her primary caregiver. 

'I want my seven-year-old pikin to fit waka and go school like her mates'

Cow milk no dey recommended as a primary drink for small babies bifor di age of one year and dey important to teach dem how to get good eating habits make dem also get good relationship wit food from early age.

Five types of food wey children need to grow well

Breast washing na traditional practice popular among di Yoruba pipo of Western Nigeria for women wey dey get issues wit dia breast, but e get any scientific backing?

No scientific proof say breast washing therapy dey work - expert

E get hope say dis genetically-engineered mosquitoes wey no dey bite go stop di spread of di invasive Anopheles stephensi species. 

Djibouti dey use ‘good mosquitoes’ to fight malaria - Here na how dem do am

Devalued currency and unstable currency for Nigeria don cause medication prices to go up wey make many patients no fit afford dia treatment.

'I wan live long, but e dey expensive' - high cost of drugs hit patients for Nigeria

For July 2020, di Federal goment of Nigeria bin arrest one  Dr Anu  of  Medcontour  and charge her to Federal High Court Ikoyi Lagos.

Why court convict cosmetic doctor Dr Anuoluwapo Adepoju

Researchers look di effects of semaglutide - one prescription drug wey dey supress appetite - and dem dey sell am under brand names like Wegovy, Ozempic and Rybelsus.

'Di injection wey fit make pesin lose weight and also reduce heart attack risk'

Di Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) don remove popular Nigerian cosmetic doctor from dia medical register.

‘I no touch her na only on phone we dey tok’ – cosmetic Dr Esho tok afta UK tribunal remove im practice licence

Na muscle pipo sabi am to be in general, but e dey of great importance. And not only becos e dey essential for standing and walking.

Wetin be soleus, di muscle wey dem dey call "second heart" and why e dey so important?

Drug regulators for at least five African kontries don recall batches of Benylin Paediatric cough syrup.

Wetin we know about di recall of Johnson & Johnson cough syrup 

Coconut na one fruit wey dey give plenti value becos every part of am dey useful. From di meat to di coconut water to di shell and husk, every part of am get use.

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