Diabetes

Expert offers tips on how to manage diabetes during the holidays

For many people, November serves as the beginning of the holiday season and with it comes lots of good food, from turkey to pies. However, November also is Diabetes Awareness Month, and one Baylor College of Medicine expert ...

Diabetes

Diabetes management program doesn't cut disparities in care

(HealthDay)—A telephone-based disease management program delivered by a disease management vendor is ineffective in reducing racial/ethnic disparities in diabetes care, according to a study published online March 10 in ...

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Can pharmacists help fill the growing primary care gap?

By 2020 157 million people in the US will be living with at least one chronic health condition. As the number of Americans managing diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol increases, the ranks of primary ...

Diabetes

Warning: Diabetes can be a killer as it targets the heart

His diabetes diagnosis in 1990 was a slap in the face for Robb Ensign, 47, who recalled that "it came out of nowhere; no one in my family had it." From Day 1, though, he decided "to control it instead of letting it control ...

Diabetes

Can not having enough to eat lead to poor diabetes management?

Latinos who worry about having enough food to eat—so-called food insecurity—report having a poorer diet and exhibit worse glycemic control than those who aren't worried about having sufficient food to survive, according ...

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