Pre-diabetes is a condition in which a person's blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not yet high enough for a diagnosis of diabetes. It encompasses both impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and impaired glucose tolerance.

Sweet taste is a quality of some chemical substances that the human race has always associated with pleasure," wrote George E. Inglett in the 1984 book Aspartame: Physiology and Biology, about the controversial artificial sweetener marketed in powder for

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine set out to address a question that has been challenging scientists for years: How does dietary restriction produce protective effects against aging and disease?

It's 7 a.m. on Saturday morning and your phone starts ringing. Who could it be but your mom stressing about the latest doomsday email forward in her inbox? You roll your eyes and thank the good heavens you're not a worrywart like your mother ... until thr

A hunch. A nagging feeling. A suspicion. A sixth sense. An inner voice. All of these are ways of describing intuition, that most nebulous and new-agey ability that supposedly lies inside all of us. Many women claim to rely heavily on their intuition, whil

When Andy Cookston and his wife opened Denver's first medical-marijuana dispensary three years ago, they hung no sign outside their door. Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14035186#ixzz0aL qdVwSo

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SALT LAKE CITY -- A small stipend will no longer be available to disbaled Utahns after the first of the year.

Newswise -- South Dakota State University research showed an intervention strategy based on the Native American spiritual concept of the Medicine Wheel brought positive changes for diabetics.

WASHINGTON - As visions of sugarplums dance in some heads, tribal communities are pondering methods for expanding dental health care in Indian country