Today I was at the American Society of Nephrology Meetings in San Diego.  Instead of enjoying the magnificent weather, I spent the day indoors listening to an excellent series of talks on the aging kidney. A talk by Professor Helen…

In the early 1980s, John Bart, a Toronto doctor, began noticing that patients were having similar complaints on the same days. Hmmmmm, he wondered, could weather be the common factor?  

As luck would have it, one of his patients was a…

British scientists have developed QDScore, an online tool for predicting your risk of developing adult-onset diabetes.

After examining medical records of more than 2.5 million people over 15 years, they found nine significant risk factors: age, ethnicity, body mass index, smoking…

Detecting diabetes can start from the bottom up. If you feel burning, tingling or numbness in your feet and toes, ask your doctor to look them over; then see a foot doctor. I wrote about this more than a year ago,…

 ”If I knew I’d live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself,” is attributed to jazz musician Eubie Blake whose meals often consisted of donuts and soda. But, frankly, it’s prophetic. After years of perusing studies, statistics, credible websites and interviewing expert researchers…