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Beneficial Side Effects Of Drugs

December 14, 2010 By: medicmagic Category: Medicine

Each treatment usually have side effects for the body. These side effects are often considered as something harmful, but there are also side effects which has beneficial impact.

One of the most popular example is the use of sildenafil or viagra that was originally intended as a therapy to overcome angina. The patients who were involved in clinical trials experienced side effects which were actually very helpful, viagra was then used as an impotence therapy. (more…)

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Protecting Your Eyes from Diabetes Impact

December 07, 2010 By: medicmagic Category: Diabetes, Eye Health

diabetes eyeDiabetes or diabetes mellitus, usually do not just stop at high levels of sugar in the blood, but also spreads and attacks other organs like the kidney, heart until the sense of vision.

In the eye, the disease can cause loss of ability to see. (more…)

Chinese Herbal Medicine, A New Hope for Diabetes Patients

August 19, 2010 By: medicmagic Category: Medicine

Emodin, a natural product that can be extracted from various Chinese herbs including Rheum palmatum and Polygonum cuspidatum, is quite promising as an agent that can reduce the impact of type 2 diabetes.

The findings which was published by the British Journal of Pharmacology August edition, shows that testing of emodin to mice – which induced obesity – lowers blood glucose and serum insulin, improving insulin resistance, and lead more healthy levels of lipids in the blood. Emodin also can lose weight and reduce fat mass. (more…)