General Health Blogs

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the most common and debilitating complications of diabetes. During National Diabetes Month, the National Eye Institute (NEI), a part of the National Institutes of Health, is encouraging people with diabetes to get annual dilated eye exams and take steps to avoid vision loss. About 28.5 percent of U.S. adults age 40 ...

White and black Americans who live in poor neighborhoods struggle with many of the same health disparities, which suggests that where a person lives plays a larger role in health disparities than previously believed, according to a new study. Researchers looked at rates of high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking and obesity in two low-income, racially integrated ...

Obese individuals are less able to inhibit the impulsive desire to eat than people of normal weight, especially when their blood-sugar levels go down below normal, researchers from Yale University and the University of Southern California reported in The Journal of Clinical Investigation. They also found that for most people, when the brain becomes hungry, a ...

Women with recently diagnosed diabetes may be more likely to also get a breast cancer diagnosis than those without diabetes, suggests a new study from Canada. It's not the first time diabetes has been linked to new cases of breast or other cancers. But the findings also hint that at least part of the reason why ...

A review of the genetic and biochemical abnormalities associated with autism reveals a possible link between the widely diagnosed neurological disorder and Type 2 diabetes, another medical disorder on the rise in recent decades. "It appears that both Type 2 diabetes and autism have a common underlying mechanism - impaired glucose tolerance and hyperinsulinemia," said Rice ...

U.S. vaccine advisers on Tuesday voted to recommend routine vaccination for Hepatitis B for adults with diabetes under the age of 60 and said people older than 60 "may" get the vaccine as well. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, voted 12-2 to include diabetics in ...

Ever since scientists started talking about the medical potential of embryonic stem cells, curing Type 1 diabetes has been one of the dearest dreams. When researchers announced in 1998 that they had derived stem cells from human embryos, their landmark report flagged juvenile-onset diabetes as a disease that might be treated by stem cell transplants. (...)

A new study found over 10 million antibiotics prescriptions are written for children unnecessarily each year - a practice that is contributing to frightening spikes in potentially drug resistant diseases, Reuters reported.

Mississippi voters turned out Tuesday to decide if life begins in their state at the moment of conception. The so-called “Personhood Amendment” pits abortion rights groups against pro-lifers in a vote with national implications.

A new study found over 10 million antibiotics prescriptions are written for children unnecessarily each year - a practice that is contributing to frightening spikes in potentially drug resistant diseases, Reuters reported.