When necessary, they will refer you to a cardiologist, nephrologist, neurologist or retinal ophthalmologist for specific complications. Insulin is a central hormone the body needs to function, and your pancreas is part of the endocrine system. With diabetes, there is no secretion, or an inadequate...
"The key to this discovery was our ability to directly compare injured kidney cells that successfully regenerated with those that did not," said Sanjeev Kumar, MD, Ph.D., a nephrologist-scientist in the Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute and the Department of Medicine at Cedars-S...
Kaiser Permanente nephrologist Steven Guest, MD, agrees: "Fluid losses occur continuously, from skin evaporation, breathing, urine, and stool, and these losses must be replaced daily for good health," he says. When your water intake does not equal your output, you can become dehydrated. Fluid ...
Most people who have been on psych meds know: weight gain is a reality. Weight gain is especially a brutal reality onantipsychotic meds, which are being prescribed more and more for more and more reasons (sleep, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, etc.). And, of course, you can a...
are living the reality of big picture. As a family doctor, I have seen something similar in medicine. If the cardiologist is making the decisions, he is protecting the heart, even if the medications have life altering side effects. If the nephrologist is making the treatment plan, the kidney...