Health Touches

High blood pressure is a condition that causes no detectable symptoms in the person who has it but which also wreaks havoc on a person’s body. Reducing high blood pressure can increase the quality of a person’s life simply by reducing the chances of getting various types of heart diseases as well as stroke.

One […]

Type 2 diabetes, the “lifestyle” version of diabetes, requires a number of changes of habit. While this can feel overwhelming, a diagnosis of diabetes can also be a case of making lemonade from life’s lemons, although in this case, you would use artificial sweetener!
The first thing after getting a diagnosis of diabetes is the […]

It used to be that patients complaining of constant pain were told that it was all in their heads and these patients were thought of as hypochondriacs. Now, fibromyalgia, a form of chronic pain that appears to have no identifiable physical cause, is an official diagnosis. Doctors and researchers are working to find […]