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Certain factors, such as weight and family history, can increase your risk of developing diabetes while pregnant. But there are ways to manage your condition so it doesn’t negatively affect your, or your baby’s, health. Getty Images About 18% of women will develop diabetes while pregnant. Gestational diabetes is a form of diabetes that occurs [...]

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Come Visit Mini Pharmacy and Share in the EXPO experience! The Los Angeles EXPO is FREE and includes health screenings, cooking demonstrations, product and service exhibitors and leading experts talking about diabetes management and prevention for Seniors, Youth and all ethnic populations. Saturday, May 4, 2013 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Los Angeles Convention Center [...]

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High levels of cortisol — the so-called stress hormone — have been associated with cardiovascular disease in some studies, but not in others. This may be because measuring cortisol in blood or saliva at one point in time may pick up acute stress, but it fails to account for long-term stress. Now Dutch researchers have [...]

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With a U.S. diabetic population of 26.9% age 65+, or 10.9 million, caregivers must be careful observers. If your parent or spouse has diabetes and is over age 65, read on. Their condition is unique to their age, but it’s not always treated that way. “Geriatric diabetes is not as well understood as it is [...]

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FDA has approved a new diabetes drug from Johnson & Johnson, making it the first in its class to be approved in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug, Invokana, after data showed it was effective in lowering blood sugar in patients with Type 2 diabetes, the most common form [...]

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It was at a Florida Diabetes Camp where Amy Soileau learned how to test her own insulin levels and met other children living with type 1 diabetes. Now, 35 years later, Soileau reaches out to families and children who also come to the camp each year. Fitness & Well-Being Spotlight is a weekly feature profiling [...]

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Omada Health which launched a program targeting people with pre-diabetes last December, raised $4.7 million in a series A round. U.S. Venture Partners led the investment, with participation from Vertical Group and Founder Collective. Past investors NEA, TriplePoint Capital, Esther Dyson and Kapor Capital also participated, bringing the total amount raised to $5.4 million. Omada [...]

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When: Saturday, March 23, 2013 Registration begins at 7:30am Conference and Health Fair 9:00am – 5:00pm Where: Santa Clara Convention Center 5001 Great American Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 How Much: $20 per person (before noon PST on Wednesday, March 20, 2013) or $15 per person when registering with 2 or more people $5 dollar [...]

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When Jeffrey Katula and his research colleagues set out to determine if they could help prevent patients from developing diabetes using group-based problem solving, he didn’t expect such drastic results. At the end of the two-year project, called the Healthy Living Partnerships to Prevent Diabetes (HELP PD) Study, the participants had lost about the same [...]

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New study doesn’t prove cause and effect but raises questions about sugar’s role in diabetes. Sugar is under the microscope again. A recent study looked at sugar and type 2 diabetes rates in 175 countries including the USA over the past 10 years and found that increased sugar availability in the food supply was associated [...]

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