Family Matters in Diabetes Self-Care

Controlling your diabetes takes 24-hour focus and a helpful network of friends and family. The support of your loved ones can make a huge difference when it comes to your diabetes treatment.

People with type 2 diabetes may have worse blood sugar control if they think their family is unsupportive.

Give support to your diabetic family members.

When it comes to managing any disease, including diabetes, you cannot do it alone. Not only is it important to have the guidance of a team of...

Multi-tasking Makes Us Feel Good

Media multitasking is becoming ever more popular but some studies have shown that our cognitive abilities may be reduced by it. If multitasking actually reduces productivity, why are more and more people doing it?

A new study suggests that the cause may be emotional. Students self-reported that they felt higher levels of emotional satisfaction after media multitasking despite being less focused.

You may work and study more effectively without multi-tasking.

"There's this myth among some people that multitasking makes them more productive,"...

Is a Good Night's Sleep Enough

If your child is acting up at school or struggling to focus or learn, it may not necessarily be a psychiatric condition or learning disability. They might just be really, really sleepy.

Wait Just a Minute on Dissing Brachytherapy!

Researchers are competitive types. They have to be to compete for funding for their salaries, lab equipment, even pencils they use. Two researchers have vastly different views about a recently published study on breast cancer radiation therapy. En garde...Fence!

Checking for Newborns' Healthy Hearts

While your newborn baby likely steals your heart from the moment you see him, you also want to be sure his heart is in tip-top working order. A simple screening may tell you.

A recent study from England has provided evidence supporting the practice of screening newborn babies for heart defects at birth using a method called pulse oximetry.

Screening for heart defects is recommended for newborns.

Dr. Shakila

IV Drugs Equal for Treating Macular Degeneration

Two medications commonly used to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have been found to provide equal treatment benefit in the first long-term study comparing the drugs.

 Injectable drugs Avastin (bevacizumab), an off-label cancer medication most frequently used to treat AMD, and Lucentis (ranibizumab), approved to treat AMD by the U.S. Food...

Risks of Breast Brachytherapy

After a lumpectomy you can choose - 1) 5-7 weeks of 5-day-a-week radiation treatments, or 2) surgical implanting of a radiation tube (brachytherapy) that stays in place for 5-7 days - and you're done. Easy choice, right? Not so fast.

Women with early breast cancer who choose to have brachytherapy following a lumpectomy are far more likely to need a later mastectomy than women who had so-called whole breast irradiation.

Those who received

Violence Alters Kids' DNA

Stress can make people look tired, worn out and even older than they really are. It turns out, that stress from being around violence during childhood can start the aging process on a cellular level too.

A recent study that looks at the aging of DNA cells finds evidence that major stressors, like acts of domestic violence, can effect kids as young as 5 years old.

Report violent acts, especially when a child is involved!

Idan Shalev...

Knowing Bone Cancer

Bone cancer is a relatively rare type of malignancy, with just under 3,000 Americans expected to be diagnosed with it in 2012. Osteosarcoma is the technical name for the most common form of the disease.

A recent study examined if and how age impacts prognosis (outlook).

After analyzing patient data, the Children's Oncology Group has found that young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 with osteosarcoma have a poorer outcome than other age groups.

Understanding Rosacea

Suffering from rosacea, a chronic often progressive skin condition that causes acne-like redness on the face, is socially crippling for many who suffer from the medical condition.

Even more frustrating is that while there are treatments to manage it, there is still no known cause or cure for rosacea.

Steven R. Feldman, MD, PhD, a professor of dermatology, pathology and public health sciences at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, said there are many thoughts about what might cause the condition, but still no known cause.

April has been designated Rosacea Awareness...

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