Health News: [diabetes ]: Students show support for friend battling diabetes

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Health News : diabetes - News from other sources.   Students show support for friend battling diabetes Thu, 11 Apr, 2013 08:51 PM PDT ARTHUR -- Trevor Gibson has struggled with diabetes since he was one.  Continue reading Greg Rai with Team Diabetes speaks about the upcoming Vancouver marathon Thu, 11 Apr, 2013 08:26 PM PDT All fields are required. Want to embed media into your comment? Just paste in a URL in a separate paragraph to the page where you would normally view the media (like on YouTube) and it will automatically be embedded into your comment. Continue reading The Nose Knows: Diabetics benefitting from the sensitive nose of service dogs Thu, 11 Apr, 2013 08:14 PM PDT Life became incredibly lonely for Lindsey Posey. Posey had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes after going into diabetic ketoacidosis due to a severe lack of insulin, which caused her blood to become acidic. Although the diabetes diagnosis wasn't a death sentence, it might as well have been for ... Continue reading Safety alert over faulty diabetes blood meters Thu, 11 Apr, 2013 07:46 PM PDT PEOPLE with diabetes have been warned to check if they have a faulty blood glucose meter at home that could give a false reading and delay treatment. Continue reading Weight loss surgery not only shrinks waists but also affects genes Thu, 11 Apr, 2013 07:13 PM PDT Gastric bypass surgery can drastically reduce the body weight of obese individuals in a short timeframe. For reasons that are not entirely clear, the surgery also leads to early remission of type 2 diabetes in the vast majority of patients. Continue reading Hinsdale Hospital diabetes educator saves lives Thu, 11 Apr, 2013 06:56 PM PDT HINSDALE — Kate Watkins says Jacque McKernan saved her life. And all McKernan did was pull up a chair, pat Watkins on the hand and listen. About a year ago Watkins found out she had nephritis — a chronic inflammation of the kidney — on top of her high blood pressure and diabetes. Watkins, a labor and d... Continue reading His Boston Marathon success measured by a calendar and a cure npc-news.islandpacket.com Thu, 11 Apr, 2013 06:52 PM PDT Beaufort County man's survival of type 1 diabetes for 50 years helps lead to new clues for a cure, and an entry in Monday's Boston Marathon. Continue reading

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