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Health News : diabetes - News from other sources.   HEALTHCARE: Support volunteer healthcare providers Mon, 01 Jul, 2013 05:02 PM PDT DESPITE major achievements in the provision of healthcare services by both public and private sectors, the huge burden of non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and diabetes is emerging as a significant ongoing cost to the community. Continue reading Controlling blood pressure, cholesterol may significantly cut heart disease risk Mon, 01 Jul, 2013 04:57 PM PDT Controlling both your high blood pressure and high cholesterol may cut your risk for heart disease by half or more. Fewer than one in three patients had both conditions under control, in a national data review. Minorities, older people and those with diabetes may benefit most from managing both conditi... Continue reading Olympic Gold Medalist Races For Victory Over Diabetes Mon, 01 Jul, 2013 04:19 PM PDT HORTON, Kan. (WIBW) _ An exercise area on the Kickapoo reservation will bear the name of an Olympic champion. Billy Mills was in Horton Monday to break ground on the tribe's new cross country park. It's an honor Mills hopes brings Native American people their most important victory ever. Continue reading Medal for man with diabetes Mon, 01 Jul, 2013 04:16 PM PDT A Church Hill man has been recognised for his courage and perseverance for living with diabetes. Eric Saunders received the Robert Lawrence Medal from Diabetes UK as recognition of how he has dealt with living with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus over 60 years. Continue reading Gestational diabetes should be followed up after delivery Mon, 01 Jul, 2013 03:48 PM PDT SALT LAKE CITY — Each year in Utah, one in 25 babies are born to mothers with gestational diabetes. Those figures come from the newest data released by the Utah Department of Health, from the 2011 Utah Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, which surveys women after delivering. The survey shows o... Continue reading Olympian Talks To Tulsa Campers With Diabetes Mon, 01 Jul, 2013 03:36 PM PDT Some Green Country kids with diabetes got a special lesson from a role model Monday. Continue reading Whitesboro youth to lobby in D.C. for diabetes funding Mon, 01 Jul, 2013 03:24 PM PDT Whitesboro's Patrick Holt will be an eighth-grader this fall. But next week, he'll be a lobbyist.  Patrick, 13, will take time off from fishing, playing baseball, building with Legos and golfing to travel to Washington, D.C. with his parents, Kristen and Tom, to lobby local members of Congress for type 1 d... Continue reading Early Respiratory Infection May Double Type 1 Diabetes Risk: Study Mon, 01 Jul, 2013 03:23 PM PDT Researchers looked at children who had first-degree relatives with the autoimmune disease Continue reading MedNetOne Gets Grant To Boost Referrals To National Diabetes Prevention Program Mon, 01 Jul, 2013 02:56 PM PDT MedNetOne Health Solutions, a Michigan-based health care management organization serving the infrastructure and clinical support needs of primary and specialty care private practice physicians and behavioral health specialists, announced a grant from the Michigan Public Health Institute. Continue reading Study: New DNA Vaccine Shuts Down Immune Cells that Cause Type 1 Diabetes Mon, 01 Jul, 2013 02:18 PM PDT It leaves the rest of the immune system alone, though         Continue reading

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