Cholesterol Drugs Can Bring On Diabetes

by | Jul 29, 2011 | 0 comments

Cholesterol-lowering medications such as Lipitor are popular among doctors because they work quickly and have relatively few side effects. However, a pair of research studies published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association” has raised serious questions...

This Boosts Mood In Type 2 Diabetics

by | Jul 25, 2011 | 0 comments

Like heart and kidney disease, type 2 diabetics are at heightened risk of suffering from depression. Depression makes managing diabetes more difficult and studies show that depressed diabetics are at heightened risk of diabetic complications. Fortunately, a new study...

Is it Prostatitis or Diabetes?

by | Jul 22, 2011 | 0 comments

Yesterday, a reader wrote in to us offering a helpful story of a difficult time he had getting a proper diagnosis when he had developed some unsettling symptoms. This isn’t uncommon, since there are a wide variety of symptoms that are present across a huge spectrum of...

Diabetes and Emulin

by | Jul 11, 2011 | 3 comments

Have you seen Medicine Man with Sean Connery? It was a predictable but engaging tale about how a scientist found a cure for cancer in the jungles of the Amazon Rain Forest, and how the cure was being destroyed by deforestation. There are examples everywhere as to how...