4 Must-Have Heart Tests
Heart disease is tricky. Like other "silent" conditions, such as high blood pressure and kidney disease, you may not know that you have it until you're doubled over from a heart attack. That's because traditional methods...
Christina Bates
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Ask Your Doctor About Aspirin Therapy
Aspirin therapy may not prevent heart disease in diabetics. Diabetes increases the risk for heart attack and stroke, and daily aspirin use...
Type 2 Diabetes Raises Risk for Stroke and Heart Attack...Especially For Younger Patients
Diabetes gets a lot of press nowadays-which, fortunately, has prompted many patients to take greater care to control their blood sugar levels....
Natural Help for the Diabetic Heart
If you have type 2 diabetes, you've already had a heart attack-whether you've had one or not! "...
How to Prevent Glaucoma Vision Loss Before It's Too Late
Image that, as you read on your computer screen, the many pixels on the screen begin to stop working, a few at...
So Long, Syringoma: How to Get Rid of Bumps Under the Eyes
Got a smattering of hard white, yellowish or skin-colored bumps on the skin under your eyes? You may think that they'...
The Diabetes Test Non-Diabetics Need Now!
A test that signals heart and kidney trouble in diabetics should also be used on people who do not have diabetes but...
Is Diabetes an Epidemic?
Everyone is at risk for diabetes. It is three times more common today than it was 40 years ago and the numbers...
Will More Fat Fight Diabetes?
Japanese researchers have discovered a hormone in abdominal fat that has some of the same characteristics as insulin. The finding may mean...
Carb-Rich Diet Fights Heart Disease and Diabetes
A diet that is rich in carbohydrates is better than a low-fat diet for reducing the risk of heart disease and diabetes,...
Stem Cells Could Cure Diabetes
Researchers have discovered a way to transform neural stem cells into insulin-producing cells, called islets—a discovery that could lead to a...
Diabetes Cured! First Living Donor Cell Transplant
The first successful operation to transplant insulin-producing cells, called islets, from a living donor has allowed a woman to stop treating her...