Endothelial dysfunction sounds like something out of a medical journal, yet its manifestation in the bodies of diabetics can be easily understood. It is blood vessel damage which can also be attributed to several other causes of this all-too-often fatal complication of diabetes, such as hypertension and chronic renal failure. Read more »
What a boon it must be to researchers, doctors and patients alike when a drug developed to treat one condition turns out to be a viable treatment for another. On less frequent occasions it is just a fluke and everyone is surprised. More often than not, however, the conditions do have correlating symptoms or one condition is a result or by-product of another. It is just such an event that has occurred for the the pharmaceutical company VIVUS, Inc. Read more »
Take it from the spouse of a coffee addict, you do not ever allow a caffeine-aholic you love to be without their JOC (java of choice). I have learned to push away the image of suffragettes and bras ablaze as I stride (make that stagger), to the kitchen every morning before my bear of a 250-pound husband awakes from his C-pap induced hibernation. Read more »
You might be inclined to call them the “Lance Armstrongs of diabetes”. What the phenomenal cyclist has done for cancer is now being done for diabetes by a pair of young friends who are working to encourage other diabetics to live full, healthy lives..
The chance encounter at a cycling event between Phil Southerland and Joe Eldridge has proven to be remarkable in their lives. They are using their common love of cycling to inspire other diabetics to educate and take care of themselves. Read more »