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Dr. Peter Forsham the noted diabetes specialist from the Univ. of California at San Francisco presented a lecture that I attended as a young professor that impressed me. He stated “if you know diabetes, you know medicine since diabetes effects every tissue and organ system from head to toe”. He …

Islet antibody testing could prevent complications by initiating insulin treatment much earlier.

Prescribing statins for people with type 2 diabetes irregardless of cholesterol levels. These findings should tear up the rule-book on statin prescribing,” says Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet. “This marks a major conceptual shift in our understanding of the prevention of heart disease.”

Arthritis is one of the most common diseases in the United States, affecting over 43 million Americans, or one out of every six people (Helmick, et al., 1995). Arthritis encompasses more than 100 diseases and conditions affecting joints, the surrounding tissues and other connective tissues. Symptoms include pain, aching, stiffness, …

Overall, 26 percent of U.S. men and 28 percent of U.S. women already are obese by about age 36, according to a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study of adult weight gain among different ethnic groups, races and sexes.

The benefits of a free choice, but sensible, diet combined with intense exercise are demonstrated in a group with diabetes.

New targets set for diabetes treatment in Britain’s National Health Service may be too strict to be practical, an article in Friday’s British Medical Journal warns.

The individual risk of progression to microalbuminuria ranged from roughly 10% in patients with no risk markers to 70% in patients with all four risk markers.

ABC’s of controlling hypertension in people with diabetes.

Healthcare workers should pay attention to the social and relationship context of their patients.