Type 2 diabetes is a long-term condition that can lead to significant health problems. However making changes to your lifestyle and taking medicines may help you live a long and prosperous life. Please note that not everyone with diabetes requires medication. But in real life most people do and can end up taking numerous medicines. [...]
It is well known that diabetes can lead to serious health problems. These problems are made worse in those who do not adequately control their blood sugar levels. When one is diagnosed with diabetes they are usually started on various tablet medications to control sugar levels, however when these tablets are no longer effective at [...]
The metabolic syndrome, otherwise known as the all-popular syndrome X, is not a disease but a group of characteristics, which in combination increase your risk of developing heart disease and type II diabetes. The characteristics that are referred to include high blood pressure, high levels of fat in the blood, obesity, high blood sugar levels. [...]
Getting a nosebleed or seeing a child get one can be scary and dramatic, but most nosebleeds are nothing to worry about. Nosebleeds (whose medical term is “epistaxis”) are incredibly common. Almost everyone has had one in his or her lifetime. Dry air or nose picking usually causes them. If you get a nosebleed or [...]
Type 2 diabetes (also known as adult-onset diabetes and non-insulin-dependent diabetes) usually develops gradually in adulthood and is caused by delayed or impaired insulin secretion, impaired insulin action, or excessive glucose output by the liver. Now insulin is a hormone that regulates the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood and is required for the [...]
Hearing loss is undoubtedly one of the biggest health care issues that face our ageing population and much of this is due to noise exposure in the workplace. This condition is permanent and so far there is no effective treatment. The only thing that can actively make a difference is by eliminating the source of [...]
Diet is undeniably something that most of us at least at some point in our lives have tried with various rates of success. Yet up until recently it has been diet and exercise alone that have been marketed as the frontiers of weight loss in the clinically obese. But is there another option? Is there [...]
February 27, 2010 – 5:33 pm
Did you know that Premature Ejaculation (PE) is the most common male sexual dysfunction worldwide? Millions of men around the world suffer from this debilitating drawback and yet even today it remains one of the most poorly understood phenomena in the medical world. Experts in PE from the International Society of Sexual Medicine (ISSM) define [...]
February 18, 2010 – 2:09 pm
In a blow to the US consumer Google is to restrict online pharmacies based in Canada from advertising to Americans despite huge popular support for the industry. Read on…Google Sets Tougher Restrictions For Online Pharmacy Ads