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...

This Can Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

by | Jul 10, 2011 | 2 comments

Type 2 diabetes is often considered an incurable disease that one has to manage throughout their life. However, a new research study out of Newcastle University found that cutting back on calories is enough to help insulin producing cells in the pancreas reproduce. In...