Diabetes: Calling For Double Trouble!

Written by Jasdeep Singh


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You can be Diabetes victim due to following reasons

a) Obesity definitely leads to Diabetes .

b) Individuals with impaired glucose tolerance or have high fat content in their blood

c) It can get transferred to you through your parents or ancestors.

d) Women who deliver babies weighing more than 9 pounds are susceptible to Diabetes.

e) Certain ethnic groups are more prone to Diabetes. Eg Mexican, Puerto Rican Americans and Cuban Americans can easily develop Diabetes.

Signs of Diabetes!!

a) Weakness and Fatigue

b) Frequent Thirst and urination

c) Quick loss of weight

d) Feeling hungry .

e) Blurring of vision.

g) frequent infections

h) numbness in limbs.

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Give Me Accutane or Give Me Death: The Politics of Prescriptions.

Written by Naweko San-Joyz


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Dr. Bremner’s findings call for further investigation ofrepparttar drug isotretinoin. However, insufficient funding may impede such a study. The American Academy of Dermatology wants clinical trials to prove that isotretinoin causes depression or “psychiatric events” before it encourages stronger warnings and tighter regulations ofrepparttar 113983 acne drug. Yet,repparttar 113984 FDA does not haverepparttar 113985 funding to coverrepparttar 113986 testing.

While delving intorepparttar 113987 affects of Accutane Dr. Bremner has come to agree with David J. Graham, MD, MPH-repparttar 113988 Associate Director for Science and Medicine in FDA’s Office of Drug Safety. Graham warns that Accutane should be taken offrepparttar 113989 market.

Dr. David Graham paints a daunting image of howrepparttar 113990 FDA determines a drug’s safely. He relates that usingrepparttar 113991 Center for Drug Evaluation and Research’s (CDER) standard for drug safety to a pistol holding 100 chambers. The gun symbolizes a drug whilerepparttar 113992 bullets represent a serious safety problem withrepparttar 113993 drug. “Using CDER’s standard, only when you have 95 bullets or more inrepparttar 113994 gun will you agree thatrepparttar 113995 gun is loaded and a safety problem exists,” explains Dr. Graham. He adds that if only 90 bullets were inrepparttar 113996 chamber, CDER would conclude thatrepparttar 113997 gun is not loaded andrepparttar 113998 drug is therefore safe.

The FDA is strengthening its risk minimization action plan (RiskMAP) for Accutane and generic version of isotretinoin in hopes of reducingrepparttar 113999 possibility of birth defects associated with fetal exposure torepparttar 114000 acne drug. Women will now have to present negative pregnancy tests before filling their isotretinoin prescription each month. Some dermatologists have practiced this pregnancy monitoring without prodding fromrepparttar 114001 FDA. This new measure makes no mention of depression or suicide that may result from isotretinoin usage.

Dr. Bremner adds that patients taking isotretinoin have to be asked about depression, they don’t just openly talk about it. Discussing symptoms of depression is an added measure that doctors prescribing isotretinoin can make to ensurerepparttar 114002 well-being of their patients.

It’s great to live in a country that inspires enterprise, invention and independence. All these things come with a price. The buyer gets to decide how much they’re willing to pay. The FDA exists to protectrepparttar 114003 consumer. Whether you feelrepparttar 114004 FDA’s efforts are insufficient or overbearing, you have medical options. Geoffrey Redmond MD, author of The Good News about Women’s Hormones, suggests using hormone therapy and/or using Retin-A if Accutane seems too risky.



Health author and Noixia campaigner Naweko San-Joyz lovingly writes from her home in San Diego. Her works include “Acne Messages: Crack the code of your zits and say goodbye to acne” (ISBN: 0974912204) and the upcoming work “Skinny Fat Chicks, Why we’re still not getting this dieting thing” (ISBN: 0974912212) for release in June of 2005. For useful acne self-help articles visit http://www.Noixia.com.


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