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Good Morning everyone.  Did you have a great weekend?  I did.  The weather was beautiful!
How is your diabetes doing?  Under control?  Issues?  Rant to me or talk to the folks at diabetes.about.com.   They are the best!
Human Skin Cells Turned Into Insulin-Producing Cells Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine [...]

I have been having issues with my high blood pressure medication, so really sick and tired of hearing about them.  BUT now this: “Popular BP drugs may cause diabetes“.   Great – just great.  
If you are hypertensive and have been prescribed one of the widely used class of medicines called beta blockers—drugs like atenolol, inderal and [...]

Good Monday Morning everyone.
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An article in Medical News TODAY, “Roughly 86 percent of Americans age 18 and older may be overweight or obese by 2030 and related health care costs would double every decade and could reach $956.9 billion in 2030 – 1 of every 6 health care dollars spent — according [...]

Every day there seems to be more advancements in the treatment of diabetes, but still no cure.   The Type I’s are in the need first, my opinion, because their pancreas’ have completed stopped working.  For the most post, Type II’s have a functioning pancreas, but other functions of the body have slowed down, or stopped. 
For me, [...]