Diabetes
Food insecurity doubles rate of severe hypoglycemia in diabetic adults, research suggests
Adults living with diabetes who can't afford to put food on the table are at more than twice the risk of severe hypoglycemia.
Oct 16, 2023
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News tagged with food insecurity
Medical economics
Study finds clinic-based community program improved food security and health
The FISH (Food Insecurity and its Sequalae on Health) Study, led by Tiffany Wesley Ardoin, MD, FACP, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans' Baton Rouge Regional Campus, reports that a clinic-based ...
Oct 12, 2023
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Health
International team of scientists says identifying some foods as addictive could shift attitudes, stimulate research
Researchers from the United States, Brazil, and Spain, including scientists with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, published an analysis in a special edition of the British Medical Journal (BMJ ) with a timely ...
Oct 9, 2023
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Pediatrics
2 in 5 US babies benefit from the WIC nutrition program, says researcher
A monthly average of more than 6 million U.S. women, infants and young children received benefits in 2022 from the nutrition program known as WIC.
Oct 5, 2023
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Medical economics
Food insecurity and the benefits of SNAP
When Laura Samuel talks about food insecurity, she often draws upon her own experiences spending part of her youth in a mobile home in coastal Maine, one of six children in a hardworking family that often faced tough choices ...
Oct 4, 2023
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Medical economics
Rural counties show steeper decline in health measures compared to urban counties in 2015 vs. 2019
Residents of rural counties have overall worse health outcomes than their urban counterparts. A study published in PLOS Global Public Health by William Weeks at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, United States and ...
Oct 3, 2023
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Medical economics
Interconnected factors increase household food insecurity in Brazil, study finds
Food insecurity is four times higher in Brazilian households headed by single women of color than those headed by married white men, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS Global Public Health. Gender ...
Oct 3, 2023
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Health
Food insecurity for children in Indigenous communities is a crisis that needs to be addressed, researchers say
Dr. Anna Banerji's ties to the Arctic run deep. She visited for the first time in 1995 to research respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in Inuit babies. In 2004, she adopted an Inuit son and developed a close relationship with ...
Oct 2, 2023
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Diabetes
Food insecurity doubles rate of severe hypoglycemia in adults with diabetes, research shows
Research presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Hamburg, Germany (2–6 Oct) has found that severe hypoglycemia is more than twice as common among adults with diabetes ...
Oct 1, 2023
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Medications
Study finds users prefer daily oral PrEP pill despite new options
When PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), a drug that prevents HIV infection, was first approved by the FDA in 2012, it was a medical breakthrough that promised to drastically reduce HIV transmission. Traditionally, PrEP is administered ...
Sep 28, 2023
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