CDC report: Diabetes rates tripled in Oklahoma and more than doubled in some ...
NEW YORK - The nation's diabetes problem is getting worse, and the biggest jump over 15 years was in Oklahoma, according to a new federal report issued Thursday.www.washingtonpost.com
Diabetes Rates Soar as 18 States See Diagnosed Cases Double
Diabetics made up at least 6 percent of the population in all 50 states in 2010, up from just three states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico in 1995, the report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. Rates are ...www.businessweek.com
Glaxo Pays $90 Million to Settle States' Avandia Claims
GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK), the U.K.'s biggest drugmaker, agreed to pay $90 million to settle claims by 37 U.S. states and the District of Columbia that the company illegally promoted the Avandia diabetes medicine. The settlement resolves claims by ...www.businessweek.com
Actress Elizabeth Perkins and Sanofi US Announce Nationwide Casting Call for ...
14, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Golden Globe and Emmy nominated actress Elizabeth Perkins, who is living with type 1 diabetes, is partnering with Sanofi US on the Diabetes Co-Stars awareness campaign to produce a new documentary that will feature people ...www.sacbee.com
Armed with the right information, diabetes can be managed correctly
According to the American Diabetes Association there are 25.8 million adults and children in the United States who have diabetes. This accounts for 8.3 percent of the population. While an estimated 18.8 million have been diagnosed with diabetes, 7.0 ...www.pal-item.com
Dr. Lipoff: Diabetes Awareness Month
Diabetes is a health condition that involves your body's ability to regulate sugar in your bloodstream. Almost 26 million adults and children have Diabetes in the United States. Normally sugar is important for brain function and as an energy source for ...www.thebaynet.com
Merck scraps combination diabetes drug
The company has estimated that 20 million people in the United States have type 2 diabetes, an illness closely linked to obesity and the most common form of diabetes. Sufferers of the disease often also have high cholesterol levels, which raise the ...www.reuters.com
Diabetes: 21st century epidemic with almost 40 per cent of Canadian lives ...
"Sun Life's corporate endorsement and financial investment will help us prevent, manage and cure diabetes by promoting healthy lifestyles; developing interventions that improve quality of life; and discovering new treatments.www.sacbee.com
Quinn: Call for more diabetes research, treatment and prevention
E-mail This Story. DIABETES1. Will Grunewald / MEDILL. Gov. Pat Quinn (center) and Dr. Louis Philipson (right) listen as Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck, director of the state Department of Health, talks about the importance of early diagnosis of diabetes.news.medill.northwestern.edu
Diabetes Treatment That Works: Boston Therapeutics (BTHE)
Diabetes. It is everywhere you look, if you have an eye for such things. It is estimated that one dollar out of every ten spent on health care in the United States is related to diabetes. There are currently more than 25 million people in the U.S. with ...secfilings.com
Special Guests Join for World Diabetes Day
And Wednesday we had the pleasure of welcoming Dudley and his friend, former Pittsburgh Steeler Kendall Simmons into the 750 Cockpit to talk to us about the challenges they faced as athletes with diabetes. But more important, they joined us to talk ...www.kxl.com
Diabetes fighting foods
Type 2 diabetes accounts for 90 to 95 percent of the nearly 26 million cases of diabetes in the United States. The CDC predicts one out of three American adults will have type 2 diabetes, which strikes with added weight, by 2050. Adding, not taking ...www.wgntv.com
Mountain Vista Medical Center Hosts Inaugural Diabetes Fair
... that diabetes has on many people in the community and wants to assist them by providing educational tools, screenings and information related to the prevention and management of this disease - the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.santanvalleytoday.com
National diabetes group to return to W.Va. in 2013
"We certainly have missed the presence of a physical ADA office here in West Virginia, and we would love to work with them," said Gina Wood, manager of the state's Diabetes Prevention and Control Program. ___. Information from: The Charleston Gazette, ...www.sfgate.com
Diabetic Association helps understand disease better
NAGPUR: Last week, the member states of World Health Organization designed the first-ever framework on prevention of non communicable diseases that have emerged as the biggest killers in recent years, including diabetes. The city chapter of Diabetic ...timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Kimberly Garrison: The diabetes epidemic - and how to avoid it
NOVEMBER is National Diabetes Month, which gives us the perfect opportunity to shed much-needed light on this disabling and deadly disease, and provide some optimal strategies for prevention and disease management.www.philly.com
US preterm birth rate continues to drop
Before her 12-year-old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes a year ago, Michelle Moriarty knew very little about the blood sugar disease other than that there was more than one type of diabetes. Before her 12-year-old daughter was diagnosed with ...www.fox54.com
Bob Evans holds fundraiser for JDRF today
"Most of us know someone who struggles with diabetes, and we recognize that it's a daily challenge to live with it," says Bob Evans Farms, Inc. Chairman & CEO Steve Davis.www.examiner.com
National Diabetes Month
November is national diabetes month, and the Zanesville-Muskingum County Health Department wants to make sure you know the dangers of diabetes and who is at risk. One out of every three people in the United States is diabetic or"pre-diabetic.www.whiznews.com
Are You at Risk for Diabetes?
In the United States, there are 79 million Americans that are at high risk for developing Type 2 diabetes. Symptoms may include fatigue, thirst, weight loss, blurred vision, and frequent urination.today.uconn.edu
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