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Is That Soda Really Sugar-Free? Test It With Tes-Tape Before You Drink
Carol Whitton of Coral Springs, Florida, discovered that her blood sugar often increased sharply after she drank a diet soda while dining in a restaurant. So she started to test her diet drinks for sugar, a practice she learned from watching the “Living With Diabetes” television program.
15 comments - 28 Apr 2008 -
New Home Kidney Dialysis Options Offer Hope for a Better Life
“You need dialysis” are words nobody wants to hear. But today kidney failure doesn’t have to mean driving to and from a clinic three times a week and having a lesser quality of life. Hemodialysis (HD) can safely be done in the privacy of your home in two new ways: daily and nocturnal home HD, both of which can help you feel better and live longer.
1 comment - 19 Mar 2008 -
Hemochromatosis is the most common single gene disease in the United States, more common than cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease, and muscular dystrophy combined.
1 comment - 15 Aug 2007 -
New $500 Mail-In DNA Test Reveals Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
The average person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes is about seven percent. Now an Icelandic biotech company has developed the deCODE T2™ test, an assessment that tells you if your risk is double that.
0 comments - 22 Jul 2007 -
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Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) affects up to 12 million Americans, causing symptoms that range from leg pain to gangrene or ulcerations resulting from lack of blood flow. Untreated, PAD can lead to possible amputation.
0 comments - 1 Jul 2006 -
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It was the belle of the ball at last summer’s ADA Scientific Sessions in San Diego. Now it appears that muraglitazar (Pargluva) is clinging to life after a scathing report recently published by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
0 comments - 1 Jan 2006 -
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FDA Approves First Instant Anemia Test
Biosafe Medical Technologies of Lake Forest, Illinois, offers an Instant Anemia Test—the first-ever disposable blood test for anemia detection approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
0 comments - 1 Jan 2006 -
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Diachrome, a patented combination of chromium picolinate and biotin, significantly lowers coronary risk factors in type 2s. According to a small study presented at an American Heart Association meeting, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB), held in May in San Francisco.
0 comments - 1 Aug 2004 -
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Patients with diabetes may require larger doses of morphine than nondiabetic patients for the most effective relief of postoperative pain.
0 comments - 1 Jul 2004 -
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Lipo Removes Fat But Not Type 2
Liposuction may suck fat from your body and take off pounds, but don’t expect it to improve your type 2 diabetes.
0 comments - 17 Jun 2004 -
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