Diabetes Reversal, Now A Possibility!

On June 4th 2013, The Nation newspaper carried the news that the World Health Organization (WHO) declares Nigeria, the leader in Africa of people living with Diabetes. That means, Nigeria has the highest number of people suffering from Diabetes in Africa. The report also states that Nigeria has the highest mortality rate from this disease.

12 Interesting Facts About Cancer You MUST Know

Cancer is a group of more than 100 different diseases characterized by the uncontrolled, abnormal growth of cells that form a tumor. Malignant (cancerous) tumors grow and invade other tissues in the body. Cells from malignant tumors can also break away and travel to other parts of the body, where they can continue to grow, a process called metastasis. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world, particularly in developing countries.
Facts about cancer you should know…

Zika virus is now an international public health emergency - W.H.O

The World Health Organization has declared the spread of Zika virus an international public health emergency and has freed funds to combat the disease.

Older women are becoming new mothers

SEVEN years ago, Rajo Devi Lohan made headlines around the world by becoming the world’s oldest first-time mother, when she gave birth to a baby girl at the age of 69. She went through IVF treatment, had a difficult pregnancy and delivery, but had a successful birth and healthy baby that she describes as a gift from God.
Omkari Panwar, in 2008 of India became the oldest mother in the world when she had twins at the

Viagra, other ED meds won’t raise cancer risk

Could impotence drugs like Viagra, Cialis or Levitra raise a man’s odds for melanoma skin cancer?

A new review of data involving over 20,000 men does find a slightly higher risk of the disease in men who took erectile dysfunction drugs versus those who didn’t.

However, the researchers believe the bump in risk is tied to lifestyle factors that men who take

Doctors Finds 50-Year-Old Fetus Inside Woman’s Abdomen

Chilean media say the woman, who is at least 90, went to hospital in the city of San Antonio after a fall.
X-ray tests then revealed the presence of a foetus which weighed around 2 kilos (4.4lb).
The phenomenon, known as a lithopedion, occurs when a foetus dies during pregnancy and then becomes calcified outside the uterus.

Deadly Ebola Virus Re-Surfaces in Sierra Leone

The deadly Ebola virus is back in Freetown, Sierra Leone. This was announced by health authorities on yesterday dashing hopes of about 1.2 million people residing in densely-populated Freetown.

The government’s National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) on Tuesday recorded three cases which emerged in the east-end slum of Magazine Wharf, three weeks after the last

Teenagers Invent Condoms That Can Detect STIs

The special condom was created by Daanyaal Ali, 14, Muaz Nawaz, 13 and Chirag Shah, 14.

A team of teenage inventors have revealed a condom capable of changing colour when it comes into contact with STIs.
The prescient prophylactic has a built-in indicator that alters its colour depending on what infection it picks up. It was revealed at the TeenTech Awards in London where it won the health category.

Eat right for your body’s sake

Ours is an age of high stress, what with all sorts of issues clogging our thinking, keeping us awake at night, and driving us silly during the day.

We worry about identity theft, national and global insecurity occasioned by terrorism, economic issues, health scare… The list is endless.

HIV/AIDS has declined in Nigeria –UNAIDS

 

The authorities of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS say there has been a steady decline in the spread of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria in the past five years.

Investigations conducted independently by the UNAIDS, Health Systems Strengthening, Integrated Biological and Behavioral Sentinel Survey and the Federal Ministry of Health have revealed a 54 per cent reduction in the estimated incidence of HIV in Nigeria between 2003 and 2013 – down from 46

Diabetes Groups Call for Greater Scrutiny of Insulin Pumps

The American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes are calling for more research into the safety and effectiveness of insulin pumps.

The diabetes’ groups recommended “the adoption of a more rigorous, standardized and transparent approach to safety.”

Among other things, they want European and American officials to bring their insulin pump

Herpes drug might help control HIV too

A widely used herpes drug also seems to help people with the HIV virus, even if those people don’t also have herpes, a new small study found.

The researchers said their findings challenge the belief that drug Valtrex (valacyclovir) requires the presence of herpes to benefit people with HIV-1. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.

The study included 18 HIV patients in Peru. When patients took Valtrex twice daily for two weeks,

Shield Against AIDS Virus in Monkeys 'Astonishingly Effective' ---New Drug

Scientists said Wednesday a new drug tested on monkeys provided an astonishingly effective shield against an animal version of the AIDS virus, a major gain in the quest for an HIV vaccine.

Macaque monkeys given the drug were able to fend off high, repeated doses of the simian version of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), they reported in the journal Nature.

"We… show a way to achieve long-lived, effective vaccine-like protection from HIV 1," the main

Accelerated trials roll out Ebola vaccine candidates in west Africa

While the pace of the Ebola epidemic that has raged across Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone since March 2014 appears to be slowing, researchers are rushing to roll out Phase III trials for vaccines against the disease.

However with the official death toll across the region at nearly 9,000, and the three worst-affected economies looking at GDP losses in the billions, critics claim the investment in research and prevention may have come too late - at least, for this outbreak.