Diabetes

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Type-2 diabetes before age 40 carries excess risk of death, especially for women

Health Insurance

Cigna and Express Scripts to cap out-of-pocket insulin costs

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Eli Lilly’s half-price insulin: How much difference will it make?

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Type 2 diabetes: can it be predicted by a genetic test?

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Diabulimia is a serious eating disorder that most people have never heard of

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Snail venom boasts potentially blood-sugar balancing qualities to treat Type 1 diabetes, study suggests

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Alternative Medicine

Major breakthrough in search for cure of Type 1 diabetes, researchers say

Doctor takes a patient's blood pressure

These personality traits in women allude to risk of type 2 diabetes, study finds

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Doctors remove a 70-pound tumor from man who thought he had a 'beer belly'

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New study finds soda more likely to cause diabetes than other sweets

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A new study predicts a global insulin shortage to hit by 2030, leaving 40 million diabetics without

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The key for low-income populations to lose weight? An app, this study suggests

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CHOP analysis of 'type 1.5 diabetes' finds links between immune, metabolic disease

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Black men more likely to accept health screenings from black doctors, study finds

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Hospitals lure diabetes patients with self-care courses, but costs can weigh heavily

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This common oral hygiene habit could increase risk for diabetes, study says

Artie Lange to fans who paid for canceled show: 'I'll pay you back'

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Reports: Comedian Artie Lange hospitalized in New Jersey

Study: Walnuts can quiet that part of your brain that makes you want to eat like crap

Study: A red wine component has similar anti-aging benefits to diet and exercise

Study: Strokes declining in men, but not in women

Mindful Mondays

9 life-mods to help ward off dementia

Penn Medicine awarded $12 million federal grant for pancreas research

Diabetes risk higher for out-of-shape guys, even if they're skinny: study

Drexel researcher makes case for Kenney's soda tax

Soda Tax

Even five percent weight loss can help your heart

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Study: Waiving drug copays saves insurance, employers money in the long run

Obesity and diabetes together 'substantially' raise autism risks

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Decline in economic status to blame for 'death gap' in middle-aged whites, study finds

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Rutgers-Camden, Rowan team up in research to fight against diabetes

Philly street artist hopes to climb back up

Supersize me ... for science

Dick Van Patten of 'Eight is Enough' dies at 86

Detecting diabetes in children before symptoms appear

Got diabetes? There's an app for that.

Diabetes App

A new number to watch with diabetes: your zip code

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Temporary tattoo measures blood sugar without needles

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