Diabetes remains a major health problem and can cause a long term complications on the arteries or nerves. This artery damage results in medical problems that are both common and serious.

Worried about the huge economic loss due to medical tourism, health professionals have called for total review of the Nigerian health sector with a view to providing better healthcare services for Nigerians.

Increased access to health insurance offered by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may not improve diabetes control among low-income patients because of social determinants of health, which are outside the scope of medical practice, such as difficulty paying for food, medications, housing or utilities (material need insecurities), according to the study background.

The common over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drug, Ibuprofen, could play a previously unknown role in extending lifespans, according to a new study.

When the news went round the oil rich but rural communities of Ogbia council area of Bayelsa State that people with eye related ailments should converge on Otuoke, there was skepticism.