Since I knew almost nothing about peripheral arterial disease (PAD), I jumped at the chance to talk with Dr.
Michael Jaff a few days ago. He is the medical director of the Vascular
Diagnostic Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital and a
specialist in treating PAD.Diabetes often causes it, and it is so often undiagnosed that only... Read more
If you can see this article, you personally don't need the new meter I'm writing about here. But you may well have a family member or a friend with diabetes who doesn't see very well, if at all.This Prodigy Voice meter is for them. Marketing in the U.S. by Diagnostic Devices... Read more
The new WaveSense Jazz meter is by far the best blood glucose meter I've ever used. For years I have complained about the lack of accuracy of other meters. All the other meters also make it too difficult to tag our results to correspond with our meals, and most other meters still require that we code them to match a new vial of test strips.... Read more
Yogurt is one of the few probiotic foods that Americans regularly eat. When we get enough probiotics -- friendly bacteria that help to drive out their bad counterparts and some yeasts -- we get a health benefit, according to a definition of the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations cited by the... Read more