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David Mendosa

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Medical Journalist Living with Diabetes and Author of Fitness and Photography for Fun, www.mendosa.com/fitnessblog
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The New York Times: "Is Sugar Toxic?"

 In 1961 I started to read The New York Times when I went to work in Washington. But its magazine always disappointed me. Until Sunday. This week’s issue focuses on “Health and Wellness 2011.” All four of the magazine’s main articles are essential reading for everyone. The cover story by Gary Taubes, “Is Sugar... Read moreChevron
posted 04/20/2011, comments (2)|
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Author, Humorist, wildlyfluctuating.blogspot.com
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What Arizona's Health Care Cost Containment System Means for Diabetes Patients

Arizona has come up with a new method to help pay for Medicaid.     They want to penalize overweight Medicare recipients for failing to lose weight.     According to an article in the New York Times, Arizona's Health Care Cost Containment System has proposed charging smokers $50 a year and applying a similar fee to diabetes... Read moreChevron
posted 04/04/2011, comment (1)|
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Physician who is living with diabetes.
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Another Drug That Lowers Blood Glucose in Prediabetes

One might think that it's pretty obvious that if you give someone who has elevated blood glucose a drug designed to lower blood glucose, that the blood glucose level will probably go down. That's the logic behind all the diabetes medications -- they lower blood glucose in people with diabetes. But what if the person taking the diabetes drug... Read moreChevron
posted 03/27/2011, comments (3)|
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Dr. Bill Quick

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Another class of diabetes drugs

Another diabetes drug, dapagliflozin, may soon be available to treat type 2 diabetes. Dapagliflozin is the first in a new class of diabetes drugs called the "SGLT2 inhibitors" (or, if you prefer, the sodium-glucose transporter-2 inhibitors), which work by a novel mechanism of action: they cause extra loss of glucose into the urine. Here's the... Read moreChevron
posted 03/13/2011, comment (1)|
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Dr. Bill Quick

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A Website For All of US

As everyone knows who reads newspaper editorials or who listens to politicians and talk-radio hosts as they rant and rave, the United States has a new health care financing law. It's expensive, comprehensive, and contains numerous reforms that will roll out over the next few years. It has been derided, maligned, and scorned by some, and warmly... Read moreChevron
posted 03/06/2011, comment (1)|
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