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Scientists are puzzled by fact that several major medical disorders like colon cancer, heart disease, dementia, etc, have been on the decline in the past 2-3 decades. This observation has been most marked in the wealthy well-developed western countries. While...

Because your body no longer makes insulin, insulin injections play a big role in your diabetes care plan. How much insulin you need to take depends on what your body's level of blood glucose is, or what you predict the...

Sodium and diabetes: Ordinary table salt is sodium chloride and the average American consumes about 6 to18 grams of salt per day, about one to three teaspoons. Persons with diabetes are encouraged to limit the sodium in their diets to...

Herbal Approaches to Diabetes and Hyperglycemia Ayurvedic botanicals often succeed where conventional medicine fails. Helping improve indicators associated with hyperglycemia and diabetes is one such area. Three herbals important in this effort are plants which seem to grow most happily...

The scientific evidence is limited on the effectiveness of using mobile health technologies to reduce heart attack and stroke risk factors, and more research is needed, according to a scientific statement by the American Heart Association that was published in...

Text messaging can help patients with diabetes manage their insulin dosing, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, KQED's "Future of You" reports. Details of Study Researchers from New York City's Bellevue Hospital's Diabetes Program...

There is now a final push to eradicate polio for good. Recently 150 countries joined forces and switched to a different polio vaccine. This new vaccine will target the two remaining strains of the polio virus. This switch has been...

On Wednesday, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced that it has decertified two electronic health record products for failing to comply with routine surveillance requests,Becker's Health IT & CIO Review reports (Jayanthi, Becker's Health IT &...

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding Logicalis, a provider of IT tools and managed care services, will acquire MCPc's Advanced Technology Integration Group  a provider of data center, communications, cloud and infrastructure integration services -- for an undisclosed sum. eVisit, a...

The labeling of the abortion pill has just been relaxed by the FDA. This is a big win for abortion right advocates who had for years been arguing in Ohio, Texas and North Dakota that mandated providers follow requirements on...