Health News: [diabetes ]: Ochsner program hoping to help stroke victims take next step from home

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Health News : diabetes - News from other sources.   Ochsner program hoping to help stroke victims take next step from home Mon, 08 Apr, 2013 04:47 PM PDT Meg Farris / Eyewitness News Email: mfarris@wwltv.com | Twitter: @megfarriswwl NEW ORLEANS — The south is called the "stroke belt" and around southeast Louisiana, "the buckle." High blood pressure, diabetes, diet and exercise all play a role in the local high death rate from stroke. But now a first-of-... Continue reading Pregnant at 46, medical advances on Halle Berry's side Mon, 08 Apr, 2013 03:29 PM PDT Halle Berry, 46, is pregnant with her second child. / Dimitrios Kambouris, Getty Images for Michael Kors Having diabetes and being an older mother pose multiple health risks for both Halle Berry and her unborn child, but the latest advances in testing and medical care will go a long way to guard agains... Continue reading Pre-pregnancy body fat, in-pregnancy weight gain, and gestational diabetes combine to increase risk of high ... Mon, 08 Apr, 2013 03:24 PM PDT A new study shows that a woman's pre-pregnancy body fat (adiposity), in-pregnancy weight gain, and presence of gestational diabetes mellitus can all combine to steeply increase the risk of giving birth to large-for-gestational age babies to different degrees in white non-Hispanic, black non-Hispanic, W... Continue reading Brave Bots Help Young Hospital Patients Overcome Challenges Mon, 08 Apr, 2013 02:17 PM PDT Portland artist Gary Hirsch created Brave Bots to give people a little bit of courage. Find out how one young diabetes patient at Randall Children's Hospital is using her Brave Bot to face her fears and overcome the challenges of her diagnosis. Continue reading Stage illusionist Peter Reveen dies at 77 after career dazzling audiences Mon, 08 Apr, 2013 01:36 PM PDT LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Peter Reveen, a popular stage illusionist and hypnotist who toured extensively in Canada, died Monday. He was 77. Reveen died at his home in Las Vegas of complications from diabetes and dementia, said his daughter-in-law Cathy Reveen. "He was a classic performer," she said in Continue reading Harvard investigation of stem cell scientific misconduct provides insight into secretive process Mon, 08 Apr, 2013 01:24 PM PDT When a former stem cell researcher at the Joslin Diabetes Center was found by federal authorities to have committed scientific misconduct last year, the report detailing her wrongdoing was brief and succinct. The full report of the Harvard Medical School investigation, released to the Globe through a f... Continue reading Diabetes Research: Too Many Drugs? Mon, 08 Apr, 2013 01:12 PM PDT Research on diabetes show far more of an emphasis on drug therapies than preventive measures, according to a Duke Medicine study. For the study, researchers examined almost 2,500 diabetes-related trials on www.clinicaltrials.gov between 2007 and 2010. Seventy-five percent of those trials focused... Continue reading

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