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A breakthorough concept in bandages has surfaced on the horizon which is boon for diabetics. HealFast is a bandage designed by Donn Koh that uses electric fields to accelerate the healing process and prevent further infection in the surrounding...
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Nowadays, more and more people are opting for a medical tattoo as an alternative for the medical alert IDs. Youngsters being diagnosed with medical conditions like...
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JoAnne Zoller Wagner’s diagnosis as prediabetic wasn’t enough to compel her to change her habits and lose 30 pounds. Not even with the knowledge her sister...
made popular Apr 19 2009
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You’ve heard that diabetes hurts your heart, your eyes, your kidneys. New research indicates a more ominous link: That diabetes increases the risk of getting...
made popular Mar 16 2009
Tattoos may be all the rage, and with the study Draper Laboratories is doing, they may become good for health too. Heather Clark and her colleagues are working on a...
made popular Feb 14 2009
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The mother of a 9-year-old diabetic who died as she lay beside a bag of candy and other sweets has been accused of helping cause her death by failing to help the girl...
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Obesity surgery can reverse diabetes in teens, just as it does in adults, according to a small study.
made popular Dec 29 2008
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New drugs to treat an epidemic of diabetes will have to be screened more closely for heart risks, federal health officials said Wednesday.
made popular Dec 17 2008
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AstraZeneca PLC and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said Monday they plan to extend their international deal to co-develop _ and ultimately sell _ a new diabetes drug to...
made popular Dec 8 2008
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As diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the world’s most common diseases, its financial cost is mounting, too, to well over $200 billion a year in the U.S. alone.
made popular Nov 18 2008
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The controversial diabetes pill Avandia failed to significantly slow plaque buildup in heart arteries compared with an older drug, though there were some hopeful signs...
made popular Nov 12 2008
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In an Oct. 30 story about U.S. diabetes rates, The Associated Press erroneously said that with Type 2, diabetics do not produce or use insulin, a hormone needed to...
made popular Oct 31 2008
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The nation’s obesity epidemic is exacting a heavy toll: The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the past 10 years, the government...
made popular Oct 30 2008
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The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the last 10 years, with the highest levels in the South, the government said Thursday in its first...
made popular Oct 30 2008
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The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the last 10 years, with the highest levels in the South, the government said Thursday in its first...
made popular Oct 30 2008
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The government should ban the diabetes drug Avandia because of a wide variety of life-threatening risks, including heart and liver damage, a consumer group said...
made popular Oct 30 2008
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Americans with diabetes nearly doubled their spending on drugs for the disease in just six years, with the bill last year climbing to an eye-popping $12.5 billion.
made popular Oct 27 2008
Drinking chamomile tea daily may help prevent the complications of type 2 diabetes, such as loss of vision and nerve and kidney damage, a study says.
made popular Sep 16 2008
As more studies are focusing on childhood health, obesity in kids can be a risk factor to consider especially in cases of heart attacks and strokes at an early age....
made popular Sep 15 2008
In order to protect yourself from diabetes you need not spending long hours in gymnasium, as doing household chores is capable of doing that. This fact rolled out from...
made popular Sep 15 2008
In a discovery that could help obese people and those afflicted with diabetes, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has devised a new tablet that could help people...
made popular Sep 15 2008
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