Bariatric Surgery Not Effective for Diabetes Reversal

by Jodi Knapp | Feb 5, 2012 | 6 comments

In the early part of the 21st century, bariatric surgery physicians were convinced that they had found a single treatment that cured both obesity and diabetes: bariatric surgery. A decade later, research is beginning to mount against the diabetes benefits of this...

Too Much Exercise May Boost Arthritis Risk

by ShellyManning | Jan 26, 2012 | 18 comments

Elite athletes may be doing their joints a disservice with their intense bouts of practice and competition, according to a report conducted by Swedish scientists at Lund University. In their research they found that athletes in hard-hitting sports such as football and...

Health Hazards of Vitamin D Deprivation

by Jodi Knapp | Jan 14, 2012 | 18 comments

If you’ve been following your doctor’s advice to the ‘T,’ you’ve probably been really careful when it comes to sun exposure. Using sunscreen and covering yourself up when needed. – – After all, isn’t the sun causing major cancers? Well, too much sun...

Arthritis, Erectile Dysfunction Linked in New Study

by Christian Goodman | Jan 12, 2012 | 0 comments

Men with stiff joints are much less likely to be stiff in another important part of their body, according to research published in Rheumatic Diseases. In this study, scientists polled a group of Taiwanese adults with an auto-immune form of arthritis, known as...

Inflammation Key Driver for Osteoarthritis

by ShellyManning | Dec 27, 2011 | 0 comments

Scientists have known for decades that inflammation is the underlying cause of several types of arthritis, especially rheumatoid arthritis. However, Stanford University scientists recently found that inflammation also causes osteoarthritis –the most common form of...

Dropping Pounds Key to Preventing Knee Arthritis

by ShellyManning | Nov 28, 2011 | 3 comments

Research presented at this week’s American College of Rheumatology annual conference in Chicago notes that losing a moderate amount of weight can mean big pain relief to sufferers of knee arthritis. The study compared rates of knee arthritis in the 1990’s and the...