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Dear Nadia, Where’s a good place or resource to turn to for a type 2 diabetic meaning of myself who needs an insulin pump but has no insurance as I cannot afford to pay for insurance? I tried Google help and other places will only do discounted pumps and I still don’t have the money to pay $1,500 for a pump. I would also need
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Kids – or their parents – might be making smarter choices when they visit fast food restaurants, even though burger joints are still the most popular drive-through stops, according to the results of a new a new study. Researchers from the Center of Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington in Seattle report that American kids get about 14 percent of their daily caloric
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Overnight closed-loop insulin delivery – which acts like an artificial pancreas and delivers insulin doses automatically – has proved to be safe and effective at controlling blood glucose levels in adolescents with type 1 diabetes, researchers recently found. While the insulin pump and continuous glucose monitoring systems that are currently available on the market are considered open loop – they measure blood glucose levels in
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Two dozen other countries top the United States when it comes to having enough doctors to go around. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. ranks 25th internationally in physician count per capita, with only 2.5 available doctors per 1,000 patients. Greece topped the list with 6.2 physicians per 1,000 patients. This is not the first time America has been called
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Chinese researchers found that type 2 diabetes patients taking metformin – one of the first lines of defense in the treatment of the disease – attained a better overall lipid profile compared with those who took glipizide. That’s important news for those with type 2 taking metformin, since 60 percent of all type 2 deaths are related to cardiovascular disease, and higher levels of lipids,
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The Year What a year I’ve had. From the spring of 2011 to the spring of 2012, my life changed utterly. There have been few years in my life more eventful, and few years that mixed joy and pain in such bracing amounts. With the year now done, I’m hesitant to draw any lessons–I just look back in amazement. In the spring of 2011, my
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An examination of several studies that included a total of 350,000 people has linked high consumption of white rice with an increase in type 2 diabetes. A comparison of the studies that were conducted in China and Japan, where white rice is a staple, indicated that people there were 55 percent more likely to develop the disease than Asian people who ate the least rice.
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A little more than 25 years ago, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. In a way, I don’t want to type that sentence. It looks backward; I want to look ahead. I’m proud of what I’ve achieved over that time, but I know that this disease is a marathon. I also know that, however much I want to take personal credit for my health,
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Winter in Chicago is catching up with my diabetic feet. No matter how much I lotion up before bed, the cracks are beginning to show. I recall a visit to my endocrinologist where she tested for sensitivity and scoped for cracks, wounds, or anything out of the ordinary. She told me how lucky I was that the skin on my feet was smooth and well
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