In the rush to give President Obama a health reform bill lawmakers have ignored fiscal reality.  Douglas Elmendorf,Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO),  told theSenate Budget Committee that the health reform bill recently crafted  by the House failed to...

Scientists are puzzled by fact that several major medical disorders like colon cancer, heart disease, dementia, etc, have been on the decline in the past 2-3 decades. This observation has been most marked in the wealthy well-developed western countries. While...

Because your body no longer makes insulin, insulin injections play a big role in your diabetes care plan. How much insulin you need to take depends on what your body's level of blood glucose is, or what you predict the...

Sodium and diabetes: Ordinary table salt is sodium chloride and the average American consumes about 6 to18 grams of salt per day, about one to three teaspoons. Persons with diabetes are encouraged to limit the sodium in their diets to...

In Oklahoma, things are heating up. On November 1, the state will put into effect a law that allows personal details about abortion patients to be published on an openly available website. House Bill 1595 would require medical personnel to...