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Diabetes & Heart Health: Lowering Your Risks

November 23, 2015

Find out about the link between diabetes and heart health. Discover how you can lower your risk for heart disease as well as type 2 diabetes. Read More

Medically Reviewed by Heart and Vascular Institute
Categorized as: Heart and Vascular Health
Tagged with: diabetes, heart attack, Heart Health, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, stroke, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
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Diabetic Retinopathy: A Leading Cause of Blindness

June 20, 2015

Following glaucoma and macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy is one of the leading causes of blindness in the United States. Learn about this disease. Read More

Medically Reviewed by Eye Center
Categorized as: Eye Health
Tagged with: Alexander Anetakis, blindness, diabetes, diabetic retinopathy, eye exams, glaucoma, macular degeneration, macular edema, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, UPMC Eye Center
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What Are Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes?

November 20, 2014

Learn about diabetes, a condition that affects the way your body turns glucose from the foods you eat into energy. Read More

Medically Reviewed by Endocrinology
Categorized as: Family Health, Living and Wellness
Tagged with: amputation, blindness, diabetes, endocrinology, family health, health & wellness, heart disease, hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, prediabetes, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
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New Solutions for Male Infertility

November 11, 2013

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. It would seem reasonable that with millions of sperm and only one egg the majority of infertility problems would lie with the female. Not true, according to the National Library of Medicine. Difficulties with fertility are evenly split: One third of the time the source of fertility problems being… Read More

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Categorized as: Men's Health, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Urology
Tagged with: chemotherapy, DAZ test, fertility, fertility treatment, juvenile onset diabetes, male infertility, Male Reproductive Medicine Surgery, National Library of Medicine, Pittsburgh Cryobank, radiation therapy, retrograde ejaculation, Thomas Jaffe MD, Type 1 diabetes, UPMC Men's Health Center

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