April 11, 2013 # 10:33 pm # Facts # No Comment 
Do you feel tired all the time? Does your mouth get dry? Do you feel like you constantly have to drink something and then go to the bathroom all the time?
If you answered yes to all of these questions – and you are a diabetic – then it is likely your blood glucose level is too high, or you have …
April 11, 2013 # 6:05 am # Surgery # No Comment 
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronic disorder of glucose metabolism with hyperglycemia triggered by conditions associated with a relative or absolute insulin deficiency. Insulin is an anabolic hormone with profound effects on the metabolism of carbohydrate, fat and protein. Less severe hyperglycemia is called Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) which is associated with an increased risk of developing diabetes in future. …
April 6, 2013 # 3:32 pm # General Health Issues # No Comment 
As parents, one of the main concerns for your family is keeping them healthy. Because when one of you gets sick, it’s really only a matter of time before everyone in the household catches the bug. All you need to do is pay attention to a few things and teach yourself and the rest of the family some good habits …
April 6, 2013 # 12:50 pm # Facts # No Comment 
Insulin
Frederick Grant Banting and Professor John James Rickard MacLeod shared a Nobel Prize in 1923 for isolation and clinical use of insulin against diabetes in 1923 for isolation and clinical use of insulin against diabetes. In 1889, German physicians Joseph von Mering and Oscar Minkowski removed pancreas from a healthy dog in order to study the role of pancreas in …
April 5, 2013 # 9:12 pm # General Health Issues # No Comment 
In his Time Magazine article, Steven Brill takes an in-depth look at how medical bills are killing Americans. Health care costs in the United States are very high and most families are struggling with keeping up with medical bills.
In that article, he presented stories of families burdened with high medical bills—stories that most average Americans can relate to. And even with …