Diseases & Conditions

People with asthma are used to the routine: Keep an inhaler handy at all times. Avoid certain triggers. Live with it. But a promising study has made another treatment option a lot more viable (if not immediately available). The medical journal The Lancet has published research that showed a new Novartis medication taken in pill […]

1: Low Bone Density As many as eight million American women have osteoporosis, and almost 22 million have low bone density, putting them at risk for developing the disease. Half of all women over age 50 will have an osteoporosis-related fracture in the years ahead. Significant risk has been reported in people of all ethnic […]

If you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, no doubt you’ve been told to change your eating habits (more veggies, less sweets) and get more exercise. These actions were thought to control your diabetes but not to reverse it. But a paper published in The BMJ  says that Type 2 diabetes is indeed reversible for many Type […]