Diabetes-prevention grants have unexpected side effects
Diabetes prevention may have been the focus of multi-year Centers for Disease Control grants, but additional positive changes have flowed from the work done by the tribal funding recipients. The grantees innovative projects including gardens, farmers markets, gathering camps, storytelling sessions and traditional-food cooking classes have gone beyond improving health in the narrow sense of ...
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Pilot study supports adolescent diabetes patients through personalized text messages
Jennifer Dyer, MD, MPH, an endocrinologist at Nationwide Children's Hospital, has developed and completed a pilot study that uses weekly, customized text messages to remind adolescent diabetes patients about their personal treatment activities. At the conclusion of the study, Dr. Dyer found an increase in overall treatment adherence and improved blood glucose levels.
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Mark Hyman, MD: How to Stop Attacking Yourself: 9 Steps to Heal Autoimmune Disease
I will explain what autoimmunity is, how inflammation spirals out of control, describe some of the underlying causes for these fires in the body, and provide you with nine steps to cool the fires.
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Hypertension, diabetes on the rise with obesity rate
As the obesity rate climbs and chronic disease management falters, the serious and costly complications of diabetes will multiply.
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Applying for Social Security Disability Benefits Can Help Ease Costs of Diabetes Care, Says Allsup
Diabetes primarily is a self-managed disease with severe risks and exorbitant healthcare costs; Allsup encourages sufferers to apply for SSDI when they can no longer work.
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