Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is an inflammation of a woman’s upper reproductive tract, including the structures of the uterus, ovaries, and fallopian tubes. Salpingitis,...
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a treatment for sickle cell disease. The therapy, called Casgevy, from Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, is the first medicine to be approved in the United States that uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR, which won its inventors the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020. The […]
In a bid to ensure effective health care management during the 2024 hajj, the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) is planning to restructure the operations of National Medical Team (NMT) to achieve cost- reduction and sizable personnel. This was contained in the report of the NMT guidelines review committee submitted to the chairman/CEO of […]