Metformin Remains the Best Drug to Treat Diabetes

Posted in General Support group on Sun, 20 Mar 2011

Metformin is the drug of choice in the treatment of diabetes. Most of my family members who have diabetes have been prescribed this drug bu their doctors. It is cheaper compared to other anti-diabeti...

Health Ministry Wants Diabetes Tests for All School Children

Posted in General Support group on Sun, 20 Mar 2011

This is good. At least the health authorities will know the prevalence of juvenile diabetes and can do something about it.

Rise in the Number of Alzheimer Patients and Unpaid Caregivers

Posted in Alzheimer's Disease Support group on Sun, 20 Mar 2011

When a person has Alzheimer's disease, the burden of taking care of him/her is on the family member who is single. Hopefully, more research breakthrough will come to find out more about the disease, e...

Key to 'Ideal' Male Contraceptive Lies in Female Hormone?

Posted in General Support group on Sat, 19 Mar 2011

It's about time that they found a male contraceptive. It has always been for women and women are the ones suffering for the side effects of the contraceptives. I think it should be the men's turn now ...

Chewable Viagra Introduced in Mexico

Posted in General Support group on Sat, 19 Mar 2011

It's good that Pfizer made chewable Viagra tablets for those who have difficulty swallowing pills.

Tuberculosis Retreatment Failing in Developing World

Posted in General Support group on Sat, 19 Mar 2011

The failure of taking anti-TB drugs everyday for at least 6 months leads to multi-drug resistant TB bacteria. This is the reason why there is an increasing retreatment failure for developing countries...

Belgium Bans Smoking in Cafes, Casinos

Posted in General Support group on Fri, 18 Mar 2011

It's good that the Belgian government has banned smoking on public places. How I wish this would happen to my country, too. Banning smoking in public lowers the incidence of second hand smoking.

New Methods to Reduce Healthcare Associated Infections

Posted in General Support group on Fri, 18 Mar 2011

It's good that there is an effort to find ways to reduce hospital-acquired infections. Hopefully, there are positive results about this and there would be lower incidence of hospital-acquired infectio...

Pharmacists in South Korea Warn Against Panic-buying of Iodide Pills

Posted in General Support group on Fri, 18 Mar 2011

Asians countries are in panic mode due to the nuclear crisis in Japan. Some people are not helping at all. Instead, they send out text messages, post messages on social networking sites aggravating th...

Heavy Smoking Rates On The Decline in US

Posted in Health Hazards of Smoking Cigarettes Support group on Fri, 18 Mar 2011

It's good that smoking rates are declining over the years. This means that people are more aware and health conscious nowadays. Smoking has a lot of bad effects on the health of the smoker and those a...