Health

Exhumation of Mir Raza Ali's body postponed after family objects to abrupt reconstitution of medico-legal board

Dawn

Exhumation of Mir Raza Ali's body postponed after family objects to abrupt reconstitution of medico-legal board

KARACHI: The exhumation of 25-year-old businessman and Institute of Business Administration graduate Mir Raza Ali’s body was postponed on Friday after his family objected to the abrupt reconstitution of the medico-legal board formed for…

Dawn

Pharmacist denies conflict of interest with man behind Essendon doping scandal

Pharmacist denies conflict of interest with man behind Essendon doping scandal

A Darwin pharmacist is facing a tribunal over allegations he inappropriately dispensed performance-enhancing drugs and did so on the basis of a conflict of interest with the man at the centre of the Essendon football club doping scandal.

Bandits flee, abandon 452 rustled animals after gun battle with security

Security operatives in Sokoto State have foiled two separate bandit attacks in Shagari and Rabah local government areas, forcing the attackers to abandon a total of 452 rustled domestic animals after gun battles with a joint security team…

Men to be offered prostate screening from age 45 under new guidelines

Men to be offered prostate screening from age 45 under new guidelines

New guidelines released today will change the way men are screened for prostate cancer and lead to less invasive testing.

Kano suspends malaria prevention activities

The Kano State Government has suspended its Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention, SMC, programme activities and constituted a committee to investigate its implementation. Public Relations Officer of the state’s Ministry of Health, Nabulisi…

Sokoto family battles to raise ransom for 8 abductees

Forty days after suspected bandits killed the Chief Imam of Kuda-Kuda village in Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State, eight members of his family remain in captivity as relatives struggle to raise the N30 million ransom demanded…

AllAfrica

Africa: Africa CDC and WHO Call for Urgent, Community-Led Action to Contain Ebola in the DR Congo

[WHO] The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called for an urgent scale-up of the community-led Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with…

AllAfrica

Ex-N/Assembly commission chair Adamu Fika dies at 84

A former Chairman of the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) Dr. Adamu Mohammed Fika, is dead. He was 84. Fika, who held the traditional title of Zarma Kura of Fika, died at a hospital in Abuja, according to a statement by the…

One man works to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and he's doing it unpaid

Stuff

One man works to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and he's doing it unpaid

Wiza Bondele goes to work every day at a hospital in Congo with one goal in mind: to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record.

Stuff

20-Year-Old Jailed After Fleeing Police On Electric Scooter With Drugs In Pembroke

Lovin Malta

20-Year-Old Jailed After Fleeing Police On Electric Scooter With Drugs In Pembroke

A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to one year in prison after attempting to flee police on an electric scooter while in possession of cannabis and ketamine. Nicholas Galea, from Pembroke, admitted to the charges after being stopped by…

Lovin Malta

Moment earthquake shakes hospital operating room in Japan

BBC

Moment earthquake shakes hospital operating room in Japan

Security camera footage shows doctors shielding a patient on the operating table as last month's magnitude 6.8 quake shook Kumamoto General Hospital.

BBC

Four arrested and two in critical condition after violent clashes in South Wales

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