DIABETES, TYPE 1
Published July 28, 2024 | 
WHAT IS IT?
Diabetes is a flaw in the way your body handles the sugars it takes from food. The body turns them into glucose-also called blood sugar-which it uses for energy. Glucose can serve as fuel only after it moves into your cells, and that’s where diabetes gets in the way.
A hormone called insulin helps glucose enter the cells. Type 1 diabetes begins when the pancreas, a flat organ tucked behind your stomach, stops making insulin. Continue reading
CONSTIPATION
Published July 28, 2024 | WHAT IS IT?
Contipation is a common-and frustrating-complaint. It means your stools are dry, too firm, and hard to pass or less frequent than normal. (Depending on your diet, age, and daily activity, “normal” can be anywhere from three bowel movements a day to three a week.)
Most of the time, constipation is harmless and easy to treat with changes as simple as eating more fiber and drinking more water. Continue reading
TINNITUS
Published July 28, 2024 | WHAT IS IT?
People who have tinnitus would like to take in the silence of a snowy landscape or a country garden, but they can’t. Instead, they hear a ringing or roaring in their ears that no one else can hear. Continue reading
SINUSITIS
Published July 28, 2024 | WHAT IS IT?
Your sinuses are small air-filled pockets in the bones around your nose. When your sinuses become inflamed, you have sinusitis. Your nose gets stuffy and drippy, and you may feel pain-sometimes severe-around your eyes, cheeks, and forehead. More than 35 million Americans know these symptoms all too well. Continue reading
HEARING LOSS
Published July 28, 2024 | WHAT IS IT?
Hearing is one of our most important senses. It helps us communicate, a skill vital to relationships at work and at home. But 28 million people in the United States, many of them older, can no longer listen as well as they would like to the world around them. Continue reading
GLAUCOMA
Published July 28, 2024 | WHAT IS IT?
Glaucoma is an eye problem to watch out for as you grow older. It consists of pressure building up inside the eye until it damages the optic nerve, the cable that carries visual signals from the eye to the brain. When you find glaucoma in time, you can control it and keep your sight-but without treatment, it can cost you some or all of your vision. Continue reading
EYE INFECTIONS
Published July 28, 2024 | WHAT IS IT?
Four natural “defenders” protect your eye: the eyelid, a thin lining called the conjunctiva, the cornea (a clear covering over the front of the eye), and tears. But sometimes bacteria, viruses, or a foreign substance get past these defenses, and your eye becomes infected. You may be able to treat the problem at home. But if the infection is serious, you’ll need medical care right away to save your vision. Continue reading
EAR INFECTIONS
Published July 28, 2024 | WHAT IS IT?
Ear infections are common, especially in young children: About one-third of children have more than three ear infections by the time they are three years old. Each year at least 3 million adults get ear infections.
The most common types are middle ear infections, when the area behind your eardrum becomes swollen and painful, and outer ear infections or swimmer’s ear, when your ear canal is sore and itchy. Continue reading