HealthDay News writes that you shouldn’t get a false sense of security from taking hypertension medicines. A new study says that too much salt can blunt the effectiveness of your drugs.
“What is striking about these results is the degree of…

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…

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,…