New research from the University of Alabama-Birmingham says people with big debts tend to have more illnesses, due to an unhealthy level of stress. The immune system soon starts to break down, and you become vulnerable to infection. The study also found that when debtors get credit counseling, their health tends to improve. Eye doctors in Salt Lake City, Utah have developed glasses which help prevent those devastating headaches. The glasses have specially tinted lenses that block out light which may set off a migraine.
Some users say the glasses have cut their migraines in half.
They are still experimental, and not yet FDA approved. The consumer watchdog group Public Citizen is attacking Rezulin and two similar diabetes drugs as more dangerous than label warnings show. When Rezulin hit the market three years ago, it was heralded as the first drug to help resensitize people with type 2 diabetes to insulin. But 85 cases of liver failure have since been reported, and Britain has even banned the drug. Now Public Citizen says heart failure can also be linked to Rezulin.