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DIABETES AND KIDNEY DISEASE SPECIAL REPORT

DIABETES AND KIDNEY DISEASE SPECIAL REPORT

While the cause of diabetes remains a mystery, doctors in New York could be a step closer to understanding one of the complications of diabetes: kidney failure. Researchers looked at patients with and without diabetes and found at least one way...

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NEW DIABETIC GUIDELINES

NEW DIABETIC GUIDELINES

There are important new diabetes guidelines just released that instruct most Type 2 diabetics to take cholesterol-lowering medication. The goal is to cut down on their risk for heart attacks and strokes, common killers in this patient population....

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WEEKLY HEALTH WRAP

WEEKLY HEALTH WRAP

Researchers have identified two genes which play a key role in determining whether a person is at risk for breast cancer. Identified as Brca1 and Brca2, individuals with both the ‘breast cancer genes’ are found to be at a greater risk of...

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Why The Body Ages

Why The Body Ages

How the body Ages. The nucleus of every cell has 23 pairs of chromosomes. And they contain DNA or the genetic material of the cell. A prime cause of ageing is every cell’s chromosomes are capped with a protein button called a telomere.

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Women & Heart Centers

“My grandmother died at 67 of heart disease and she was a diabetic, my mother died at 59 from heart disease, my sister who was two years older than me died at 51 from heart disease, my oldest sister who is five years older than me had her first...

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