Insulin-Dependent Diabetes ******REMINDER****** The information contained in the Rare Disease Database is provided for educational purposes only. It should not be used for diagnostic or treatment purposes. If you wish to obtain more information about this disorder, p...

Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects the pancreas. When you have Diabetes the pancreas stops making insulin or doesn't make enough. Doctors are not sure, but they think this happens when your body is trying to fight a virus. The insulin-making cells look like a virus, so your body b...

VEGETARIANISM Vegetarianism as defined by The World Book Dictionary as "the practice or principle of eating only vegetable foods and refraining from eating meat, fish, or other animal products". This definition, though accurate, seems somewhat limited, as being a vegetarian is so much more: it is...

Diabetes in the United States Diabetes affects more than15.7 million American's, or 5.9% of the population. In the United States alone, 10.3 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes and 5.4 million people remain undiagnosed, with 798,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Diabetes affe...

Physical activity is especially important to me because of the my heredity factors. My father is overweight and has several health complications due to his heredity factors. He had high blood pressure and type II diabetes. My grandmother has a heart disease in which requires medication on a daily ba...

Cloning: How far will it go? Everyday people find themselves at a crossroads that requires a decision as to which path to follow. In the past few years, scientists have gained knowledge about cloning that could impact our lives for centuries to come. As a society we are at a crossroads and we w...

Cloning: How far will it go? Everyday people find themselves at a crossroads that requires a decision as to which path to follow. In the past few years, scientists have gained knowledge about cloning that could impact our lives for centuries to come. As a society we are at a crossroads and we w...

Ladies and gentlemen, I stand here before you at a time in which the health care of older Americans has become a critical issue. Or should I say issues' We have more people needing more and more specialized care - this is critical. We have fewer and fewer people being asked to do more and ...

Coping with Diabetes Diabetes is a Greek work, meaning to "siphon". Mellitus, a Latin word, relates to a word meaning, "honey" or sweet tasting. Due to the high sugar content and the lack of earlier testing methodologies, testing the urine did give an indication that the ...

Alternative Approaches to the Treatment of Diabetes Diabetes is a general term for a disease caused by defective carbohydrate metabolism and characterized by abnormally large amounts of sugar in the blood and urine. Diabetes is usually classified into two types. Type I or insulin-dependent d...

Alternative Approaches to the Treatment of Diabetes Diabetes is a general term for a disease caused by defective carbohydrate metabolism and characterized by abnormally large amounts of sugar in the blood and urine. Diabetes is usually classified into two types. Type I or insulin-dependent diabetes,...