Doctor Bruce Carnes reminds us that aging is not one thing, it is a million things.  We all want to live longer with a better quality of life but can science cure diabetes and other diseases that impact us more profoundly the older we get?  Are we alrea

Eliza Chakravarty, M.D., Associate Member, Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Research program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF).  Smoking is the single most dangerous variable in the diabetes equation.   Dr. Chakravarty explores the risks pres

Cardiovascular disease and stroke become far more likely when a patient has diabetes.  Doctor Gosmanov talks about a simple tool for risk assessment that can be used by both clinician and patient.  Appropriate preventive strategies involving the patient

Paul A. Offit, M.D., Chief of the division of infectious Disease, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia The author of Do You Believe In Magic?: The Sense and Non-sense of Alternative Medicine, Dr. Offit cites false pitches that have made the supplement b

Elaine Soter, M.D., Director, Midwest Regional Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center Dr. Soter directs an organized and aggressive process to reduce amputations due to diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.  At this time there is a paradigm shift in medic

Rakesh Shrivastava, M.D. Cardiovascular Disease Midwest Regional Medical Center   NEW CHOLESTEROL GUIDELINES Doctor Shrivastava discusses the new lipid guidelines and why they continue to be lowered.  Can plaque buildup be reversed?  Is it ever too l

Patrick Schlievert, Ph.D. Chair and Department Executive Officer, Professor of Microbiology, Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa   THE TOXIN INVASION & DIABETES Doctor Schlievert was first to alert us to Toxic Shock Syndrome and Fle

Dharambir Sanghera, PhD Associate Professor of Genetics, College of Medicine, Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience, Department of Pediatrics Director, Molecular Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center The neanderthal ge

                                   DIABETES, ENERGY & FREE RADICALS Doctor Kenneth Humphries shares his latest research on the failed energy systems found in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.  This causes excessive production

Peripheral Artery (or Arterial) Disease (also referred to as PAD) is all too common and can lead to serious complications related to impaired vascular function.  If you have diabetes, you have a higher risk of PAD.  Excess glucose and high blood pressur