Recent Posts Tagged With 'diabetes'

• US is best in cancer care but bad in others

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 06:47 in Cancer, diabetes, us, asthma, oecd, cancer care

  Good news for cancer patients in the US, bad news for those with diabetes and asthma. Mark Pearson is the head of the health division at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and he testified before a Senate Committee in Se...

• Mediterranean diet works for diabetics, too

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 07:30 in diet, diabetes, mediterranean diet

  Newly diagnosed with diabetes? Here is something you can do to postpone the need for anti-diabetes drugs: go for the Mediterranean diet. Mediterranean diet has always been thought of as the ideal diet to maintain cardiovascular health without giving...

• Powerful noses: dogs can smell hypoglycemia attacks coming!

  Posted on Wednesday July 8th, 2009 at 01:58 in diabetes, smell, hypoglycemia, dogy

  We all know that dogs have exceptional sense of smell. But do their olfactory powers extend to sniffing out health problems? Well, it seems that dogs can detect the smell of a hypoglycemia attack coming, probably in the form of chemicals given off by...

• It’s not all bad news for rosiglitazone

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 08:49 in diabetes, clinical trials, plaques, record, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular risk, approach, rosiglitazone, avandia

  Remember the controversy about the diabetic drug rosiglitazone (market name Avandia)? Remember the issues surrounding the APPROACH Trial - Assessment on the Prevention of Progression by Rosiglitazone on Atherosclerosis in Type 2 Diabetes Patients wit...

• Judge Sonia Sotomayor: an inspiration for those with diabetes

  Posted on Thursday May 28th, 2009 at 06:34 in diabetes, type 1 diabetes, us supreme court, sotomayor

  Health advocacy groups applaud US President Barack Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court. You see, the 54-year old judge has Type 1 diabetes since the age of 8. Type 1 diabetes is an incurable but manageable condition. A...