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Anchor lead:  Will the rising tide of diabetes worldwide sweep away gains made in tuberculosis control? Elizabeth Tracey reports Multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis  are already worldwide concerns. Enter now the worldwide epidemic of diabetes, which a recent …

September 30, 2014 – Epidemic TB and Diabetes Read more »

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Anchor lead:Diabetes complicates tuberculosis, Elizabeth Tracey reports Diabetes and tuberculosis, two worldwide health problems of epidemic proportion, work in synchrony to make things even worse.  That’s according to a recent Lancet series.  Jonathan Golub, a tuberculosis and diabetes expert at …

September 29, 2014 – Diabetes and TB Read more »

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Anchor lead:  Should you manage your own blood pressure medicines? Elizabeth Tracey reports Many people with high blood pressure are capable of managing not just monitoring but also increasing or decreasing their medicines to keep blood pressure under control, a …

September 26, 2014 – Medicine Experience Read more »

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Anchor lead:  One day soon you may be called upon to manage your own blood pressure, Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood pressure is a tricky thing, going up temporarily in stressful situations like a doctor’s office.  So rather than rely on …

September 25, 2014 – : Blood Pressure Management Read more »