Lymphatic & Endocrine system Articles

Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. It affects 26 million Americans and causes an annual loss of 174 billion dollars. The disease affects almost all organs of the body, leading to considerable morbidity.

Wounds that are slow to heal, typically a complication of diabetes, are the most common cause of tissue damage that requires amputation of a foot or leg. Simply cleaning wounds more often, researchers say, ensures that they heal faster.

Once a luxury food reserved for royalty, sugar has become the largest source of calories in the modern diet. And due to its effects on brain chemistry, the more sugar we eat, the more sugar we want.

Marijuana has never been taken seriously by the physicians. But in what comes as a shot in the arm of people lobbying for legalization of marijuana consumption, researchers have found that it can help diabetics to have better control of their blood sugar.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Communist island nation of Cuba experienced a severe economic crisis. Everything about the economic crisis, however, turned out not to be bad.