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• What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes?

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• Daily Tips to Help Manage Your Fibromyalgia

  Although the major symptoms of fibromyalgia are widespread pain and chronic fatigue, many individuals report a feeling of confusion and forgetfulness. This feeling is often referred to as the “fibro fog”. The cause of these cognitive difficulties is unknown, but may be attributable to the sleep...

• What is a Hiatal Hernia?

  The hiatus is the opening in the diaphragm through which the esophagus goes and attaches to the stomach. Hiatal hernia is a condition that results in a part of the stomach pushing upwards through the opening into the chest. Small hiatal hernia may not affect you, and you may not realize unless the...

• More Sleep May Ease Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms

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• Country Singer Ben Rue: "Buck Off Diabetes!"

  Diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 14, Ben Rue has learned to live with the chronic condition for most of his adolescence“My mother is a nurse and always brought home little gadgets to test on her boys for fun and so she brought home a blood sugar test one day to test all of us,” recalls Rue....