HSA imposes restrictions on use of diabetes drug Avandia
Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by Aruna Ram Kumar in Health
Health Sciences Authority (HSA) on Friday, September 24, 2010, announced that the use of diabetes drug Avandia will henceforth be limited. The drug is used to regulate blood sugar in people suffering from the type-2 diabetes.
The annoucement from the Health Sciences Authority comes in the wake of European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) recommendations to ban the [...]
Green leaf vegetables can lower risk of type 2 diabetes
Posted on 20. Aug, 2010 by Murthy in Health
Green leafy veggies may reduce developing diabetes. Including lot of green leafy vegetables in the diet may reduce risk of type 2 diabetes, suggest British researchers.
According to a review and analysis by team led by Patrice Carter from the University of Leicester, taking 1.5 servings of green leafy veggies everyday reduce the risk of developing [...]
Tea for blood sugar control?
Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by admin in General
While tea is known to promote general health with phytophenols and antioxidants, according to a professor from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Dr. Jo Ann Carsonm tea can be a thing for blood sugar control too.
According to the professor of clinical nutrition, studies conducted in various centers suggest that incidence of type-2 diabetes [...]
Abdominal fat cell size could determine if you will be diabetic in future
Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by admin in Health
A new study says that big cell size in the abdomen could actually is enough to predict that you will be diabetic in future.
According to the Swedish researchers who conducted study on several women, the abdominal fat cell size and/or the ratio of waist to height could actually be used as tools to determine if [...]
