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Avandia Harms The Heart, Studies Find
Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports that recommend the drug be removed from the market. The reports, obtained by The New York Times, say that if every diabetic now taking Avandia were instead given a similar pill named Actos...
Kelly’s Kitchen
Kelly Mager used to run a haut café in Victoria but she realized that she disliked the city life and the clientele that went with it. “the soup would…
Savory Grain-free Crackers - GlutenFreeGodess
Savory Grain-Free Cracker Recipe
These crackers are mighty tasty- especially if you're generous with the seasonings. I used Trader Joe's Roasted Garlic and Organic Italian Herbs to create kick-ass flavor.
Ode to My Wooden Leg
A Story of Adventure and Love in the Endocrine System Since 2005, I have been the appreciative owner of a Kaiser-subsidized Medtronic Minimed insulin…
Dolphin ability to switch on and off diabetes could lead to human cure
Researchers found that dolphins can induce diabetes when there is little food around and turn it off when food is abundant, according to Telegraph. They believe this is a unique ability in the animal kingdom and results from the dolphin’s need to maintain high blood sugar levels to feed its big brain....
Rest Day
Jan 10: It is snowing now. When I look out the window, all I can see are the flakes falling on the nearby trees and formations of cracked granite. Robeson…
The Traveling Diabetic
I just returned from a trip to Tokyo for work and am finally over my jet-lag and settling back into my old routine.  It was a crazy week: not much sleep,…
Preeclampsia, Gestational Diabetes in Pregnant Women With Hypertension or Obesity to be Examined
The National Institutes of Health provided a research grant of $2.4 million to Sean Blackwell, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, to study the link between obesity and high-risk pregnancies caused by preeclampsia and diabetes.