Diabetes is being touted as one of the biggest problems that Americans are faced with these days. With the soaring number of cases that are being diagnosed each day, it almost seems like there is no way of addressing this issue well and bringing it to an end. People have taken to a number of methods to tackle the problem of diabetes – the conventional and the unconventional ways! In the end, however, diabetes has continued to loom over their heads, threatening to take over their entire lives. THE GOOD NEWS According to updates from the medical world, there is now a new method of getting rid of your diabetes-induced life, and beginning anew. It comes in the form of a 40 minute operation that can be used to treat even the most common form of diabetes. What this surgery does is, that, it bypasses part of the digestive system of the patient; and in doing so it has been seen to tackle the basic symptoms of patients with Type 2 diabetes. The real problem, however,  [...]

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading company that deals with medical technology, has finally launched their newest product. Called 'BD Ultra-Fine Nano', which is the world's smallest pen needle. It is being touted as the answer to prayers of those who suffer from needle anxiety. It is said to be capable of providing a less painful injection experience for all those who are on insulin injections. The number of Americans who are on insulin comes up to a startlingly large number, and this new pen needle might bring some respite for these patients. BD does it again This needle pen innovation will get added to BD's list of many firsts. They have constantly been bringing out something new and better for the people who live with diabetes. They were responsible for the first ever insulin syringe, which was created by them in the year 1924; and  [...]

An increasing number of people from the United States are consuming sugared beverages (soda, sports drink and fruit drink) that have lead to a proportional rise in cardiovascular ailments and diabetes cases in the last ten years. Investigators cited this information during the fiftieth yearly congregation of the American Heart Association. Investigators estimated that the surge in intake of sugared drinks from 1990-2000 has been contributory to over one lakh new-fangled diabetes cases, fourteen thousand novel CHD (coronary heart disease) cases and fifty thousand supplementary life-years encumbered by CHD over the last ten years. Sugared sports, fruit-based drinks (not all fruit juice) and soda (aerated) beverages have corresponding calories which range from 120-200calories in each beverage and hence playing a part in the population’s mounting obesity wave. Earlier studies have associated day-to-day intake of such sugared drinks to an amplified risk  [...]