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…

AARP Segunda Juventud, the Spanish language voice of the AAR{ writes that a majority of Hispanic Americans over 40 who think they know the signs of heart disease.

While everyone knows about shortness of breath and the sore left arm, many…

Recently, a fellow reporter told me about a reader who called, complaining about a story. The reader managed to spew a bunch of caustic nonsense including name calling. Of course he didn’t leave his name or phone number. My friend…

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,…

Science Daily is reporting that “some obese individuals don’t appear to have an increased risk for heart disease, while some normal-weight individuals do.” They’re basing this on two recent reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Tim Russert’s death was unnerving news to a lot of people struggling with their weight, blood pressure and other high-risk factors for heart disease. Russert had recently passed a stress test and was on several medications to control his blood…