California Will Produce Its Own Insulin to Bring Down Prices
FRIDAY, July 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) — California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Thursday that the state will spend $100 million to produce its own insulin.The innovative push comes after years of astronomical prices for the drug have made it nearl…
Learn MoreDisability Payments Can Help Keep Veterans With Diabetes Out of the Hospital
FRIDAY, July 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) — More disability payments led to fewer hospitalizations for Vietnam veterans with diabetes, according to a new report.The research looked at 14,000 Vietnam vets who benefited from a 2001 policy change that incre…
Learn MorePoll Finds Many Diabetes Caregivers Exhausted, Lacking Support
TUESDAY, July 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Diane Kondyra knows a lot about the hidden dangers of diabetes.Both she and her husband have been diagnosed with the blood sugar disease, and her husband suffered one of its devastating complications in 2018 w…
Learn MoreDiabetes: The Exercise Prescription
Every time Natalie Wayne climbs a mountain or goes speed skating, sugar pills are part of her equipment. Wright, who lives in Wakefield, Rhode Island, is a certified diabetes educator, an exercise physiologist, and a self-proclaimed “exercise nut” who…
Learn MoreType 2 Diabetes and Kids: The Growing Epidemic
Can children get type 2 diabetes?Before the obesity epidemic in the United States, type 2 diabetes was practically unheard of in people under 30. That explains the former name for the disease: adult-onset diabetes. Not long ago, almost all children wi…
Learn MoreDiabetes in the Classroom
Giving a 6-year-old a shot of insulin every morning is hard. Putting her on a school bus afterwards is even harder. Every weekday for years, Mary Schuh (pronounced “shoe”) of Beaver Creek, Oregon, entrusted her daughter’s life to the staff of Beaver C…
Learn MoreType 1 Diabetes and Your Child
Although the number of children with type 2 diabetes is growing, type 1 is still the most prevalent form of disease in people younger than 18. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, which means the body’s own immune system, designed to attack infec…
Learn MoreInteractive Tools for Kids with Diabetes
Once upon a time not so long ago, in a land very close to home, children faced bleak prospects when it came to learning about and coping with type 1 diabetes. Stern lectures from clinicians and educators, do’s and don’ts imposed by parents, secrecy bo…
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