More than 200 volunteer advocates from the American Diabetes Association will meet with their Members of Congress this week, to urge them to support federal funding for diabetes research and prevention programs at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
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Hundreds Of Diabetes Advocates Arrive In Washington, DC To Urge Congress To Stop Diabetes(R)
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J&J’s Animas Insulin Pump Cartridges Leak, Urgent Recall
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Animas Corporation, part of Johnson & Johnson, has issued an urgent announcement to all its insulin pump users and their doctors about leaking cartridges and faulty pump alarms if the infusion set has an obstruction. The company says its 2.0 mL insulin cartridges delivered between 30th November 2010 and January 4th 2011 may leak insulin…
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Diabetes In 15 Mainly Southern US States Make Up Bulk Of National Incidence
March 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
644 counties in mostly 15 southern states have diabetes rates considerably higher than the rest of the population, significantly due to two preventable factors – physical inactivity and obesity and overweight – researchers have revealed in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. In the 1960s we had the stroke belt, today there is the diabetes belt. Lead researcher, Lawrence E…
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Physician’s Empathy Directly Associated With Positive Clinical Outcomes In Diabetic Patients
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It has been thought that the quality of the physician-patient relationship is integral to positive outcomes but until now, data to confirm such beliefs has been hard to find…
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Air Pollution Exposure And Human Health
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To explore one of the most critical health/environment intersections – how the very air we breathe can cause heart disease and diabetes and contribute to the problems of obesity – Michigan State University has been named a Clean Air Research Center by the Environmental Protection Agency…
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In The Dark Horizon Of Obesity And Diabetes, Klotho Brings A Ray Of Hope
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An important discovery in mice may make a big difference in people’s waistlines thanks to a team of Harvard scientists who found that reducing the function of a transmembrane protein, called Klotho, in obese mice with high blood sugar levels produced lean mice with reduced blood sugar levels…
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TrialNet Study Seeks Answers To Type 1 Diabetes Questions
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Individuals at risk for type 1 diabetes can help physicians at Riley Hospital for Children learn more about this life-long disease. Riley Hospital is one of 18 clinical centers in the United States and seven other countries seeking more information on how type 1 diabetes develops in at-risk individuals…
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Diabetes Belt Identified In Southern United States
March 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In the 1960s, a group of U.S. states with high age-adjusted stroke mortality defined a “stroke belt.” Until recently, geographic patterns of diabetes had not been specifically characterized in the same manner…
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