How Diabetes Can Affect Your Eyes

Diabetes is a condition that occurs when your blood sugar is too high. This occurs because the disease makes it difficult for your body to make enough insulin or use it properly. There are two types of diabetes. Type I diabetes is also known as juvenile diabetes and...

Difference Between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

Image is from Diabetes Research Diabetes is a metabolic disorder which is characterized by, among other symptoms, a high concentration of sugar in the blood. With the myriad of disorders, the beta cells located in the pancreas find it hard to produce enough insulin to...

Risk factors of type 2 diabetes

Image from the liberatehealth.us Factors Listed As a brief checklist, run over the following items and see how many describe your lifestyle: Diabetes In The Family History Gestational Diabetes In Family History Ethnicity Bad Nutrition In Pregnancy High Blood Pressure...

Understanding HCV Testing

Hepatitis C is a debilitating disease that can lead to cirrhosis of your liver, liver failure, or liver cancer. The disease is caused by the blood borne Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). The danger here is that you may not be aware that you are carrying the virus, until much...

The Need for Hepatitis C Testing in Primary Care

♦ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommend that adults born during 1945– 1965 should receive one time testing for hepatitis C virus (HCV) without prior ascertainment of HCV risk (Strong...