Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of six, 32-year-old Michael Zabel can hardly recall a time when the disease wasn’t a part of his life. “I remember when I was little; the doctor always told me it was important to have my eyes checked every year.” Careful planning and monitoring of his condition [...]

The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute received a four-year, $4.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to investigate the genes involved in type 1diabetes (T1D). Aron M. Geurts, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology, and Yi-Guang Chen, Ph.D., [...]

By Sadie James smjjambur@aol.com Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare in association with the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the American Association of Diabetes Education (AADE) has created two programs that offer information, education and condition management techniques for those with diabetes or who are at risk for developing diabetes. The programs are IT’S NOT DIABETES… YET, Controlling [...]

Past events found more than 25 percent of participants were at-risk for diabetes Walgreens (NYSE, NASDAQ: WAG), the nation’s largest drugstore chain with more than 70,000 health care service providers, will offer free blood glucose and A1C testing at more than 1,700 stores and Take Care Clinics nationwide Nov. 12 and 13, from 10 a.m. [...]

by Keith Scott MD Over the past decade medical scientists have discovered that ordinary culinary herbs and spices contain a vast quantity of exceptionally important plant nutrients that can help to prevent and treat many of our most prevalent degenerative diseases. Here are ten convincing reasons why those of us who do not include spices [...]