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Jamaica Gleaner Profiles in Medicine
published: Wednesday | February 19, 2003

Diabetes On a glucose high
About 50 per cent of diabetic patients undergoing leg amputation will lose the other leg in two to three years.

The non-healing wound
WHAT IS it about diabetes that leads to the non-healing ulcer or wound? U.S. vascular surgeon, Dr. Michael Weingarten says that one of the reasons is that diabetics get peripheral vascular disease (PVD)...


Disease-fighting plants
PLANT CELLS produce far more chemical compounds than are necessary for their basic functions. Basic or primary metabolism refers to all biochemical processes that result in assimilation, respiration, transport, and differentiation.




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