What’s New with Medicare for 2025
Insurance

What’s New with Medicare for 2025

Lauren Bigham Steele | December 19, 2024

...FDA for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. And now the weight-loss drug Wegovy has been approved as a treatment for patients at elevated risk for cardiovascular disease. A significant...

January 14, 2025

Michelle Magee, MD, endocrinologist, director, MedStar Diabetes Institute, associate professor of medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, both in Washington, DC. Her study, titled “Diabetes Boot Camp Reduces A1c and...

January 14, 2025

...and manage their diabetes through healthy diet and lifestyle, with minimal medication. Based in Paso Robles, California, she currently is writing a self-help guide for people with type 2 diabetes....

January 14, 2025

...research director and chief scientific officer of Harvard’s Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, and author of The Diabetes Reset: The Revolutionary Plan to Reverse, Control, and Avoid Type 2 Diabetes (Workman)....

Easy Delicious Low-Carb Low-Sugar Recipes
Food

Easy Delicious Low-Carb Low-Sugar Recipes

Linda Gassenheimer | August 25, 2023

A diabetes-friendly diet doesn’t mean eating just steamed vegetables and broiled fish all the time. Following the guidelines from the American Diabetes Association to manage your blood sugar means eating...

Is That Food Ultra-Processed?
Food

Is That Food Ultra-Processed?

Michael Lyon, MD | October 6, 2023

...us are obese and suffer with chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes. Here is everything you need to know about UPFs—and easy ways to include more whole, minimally processed...

Heart Health = Brain Health
Heart

Heart Health = Brain Health

Chengxuan Qiu, PhD | October 17, 2023

...factors, including smoking, high blood pressure and diabetes. What’s more, heart disease can contribute to cognitive decline by causing inadequate blood supply to the brain, and that sets the stage...

TLC for Chronic Wounds
Pain

TLC for Chronic Wounds

Robert Kirsner, MD, PhD | February 3, 2024

...seniors and people with circulatory disease, cancer, and spinal cord injuries. Americans with diabetes are particularly at risk because of poor circulation (bringing less blood and oxygen to the wound)...

Prevent These Common Age-Related Eye Diseases
Diseases & Conditions

Prevent These Common Age-Related Eye Diseases

Marc Grossman, OD, LAc | March 18, 2024

...loss of peripheral (side) vision. Diabetes, high blood pressure, thyroid disorders and a family history increase risk. Treatments include prescription eyedrops, lasers and surgery. Recent findings: Exercise may help to...

Does Red Meat Cause Inflammation?
Food

Does Red Meat Cause Inflammation?

March 24, 2024

...including heart disease, kidney disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, depression, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer’s. Over the same period, study after study has shown that people who eat plant-based diets such...

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
Consumer Goods

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD | April 1, 2024

...and many other medical specialties. Diabetic retinopathy. Nearly 40 million Americans have diabetes, and all of them are at risk for diabetic retinal disease, an eye condition that is the...

Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Sleep

Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

April 23, 2024

...particularly during periods of high stress, to make sure you don’t relapse. This is similar to a person with high blood pressure or diabetes who stays on medication to control...

Detoxifying at the Cellular Level With a Metabolic Cleanse
Nutrition

Detoxifying at the Cellular Level With a Metabolic Cleanse

May 22, 2024

...on sweating therapy and health… •Type 2 diabetes. People with type 2 diabetes who took 20-minute saunas three times a week, for three months, had an improvement in their health...

Statin Side Effects
Cardiovascular Disease

Statin Side Effects

June 6, 2024

...on the link between statins and diabetes, Italian re searchers at the University of Milan found that the drug raised diabetes risk by 44 percent. •Digestive problems. “Gastrointestinal adverse effects”...

Natural Remedies for Erectile Dysfunction
Aging

Natural Remedies for Erectile Dysfunction

June 9, 2024

...psychological. Now experts agree that while some may have a psychological basis, most are due to physical causes. Having diabetes or heart disease can increase problems with ED, as can...