The feeling of being on "pins and needles" is wonderful-if it describes how children feel when looking forward to a birthday party or adults when anticipating a special vacation. But where diabetes patients are concerned, those words often are used...
Plant-based diet eases diabetic nerve pain, according to Anne Bunner, Phd. In a 20 week study of people with diabetic neuropathy (which...
Twenty-five percent of people with diabetes develop diabetic neuropathy-glucose caused damage to nerves throughout the body, particularly in the hands, arms, feet...
Evidence is mounting that targeted therapies—drug treatments that attack tumors without harming healthy tissue—work well against breast cancer. The Trials...
Up to 70% of diabetes patients have some form of neuropathy. The most common is peripheral neuropathy, in which nerves in the...
Peripheral neuropathy may be one of the most common conditions you've never heard of-and it is indeed common. Estimates are...
The breast cancer drug tamoxifen lowers a woman's risk of heart attack, a new study suggests. The Study Earlier studies...
When most people think of bone problems, broken bones and osteoporosis (reduced bone density and strength) come to mind. But our bones...
Concerns about side effects discourage many women at high risk for breast cancer from taking tamoxifen, according to a study. The use...
To protect yourself from foot injuries... • Never walk barefoot, even around the house. • Don't wear sandals-the straps can irritate the...
A newer drug called anastrozole could soon replace tamoxifen as the standard treatment for postmenopausal breast cancer patients whose cancer is fueled...
A foot or leg amputations is one of the most dreaded complications of diabetes. In the US, more than 65,00 such...