Diabetes

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Millions of diabetes patients are missing out on Medicare’s nutrition help

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Health Insurance

Type 1 diabetics decry rising costs of life-saving insulin

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Free health screenings for Camden residents in September

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Mediterranean diet may be antidote to unhealthy weight gain, gestational diabetes in pregnant women

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Alternative Medicine

Color-changing tattoos may help diabetes patients monitor their levels

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Children's Health

Philly rolls out 'I Call the Snacks' campaign targeting sugary foods

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Sugar substitutes: Is one better or worse for diabetes? For weight loss? An expert explains

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Apple's high-tech blood glucose monitors are slowly hitting store shelves

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Coffee proves to be a fat-burning, obesity-fighting beverage in 'pioneering' study

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Does rotavirus vaccine lower risk of children getting Type 1 diabetes?

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Men have a ticking biological clock, too

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Having migraines might protect you from Type 2 diabetes, study finds

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Is insulin’s high cost keeping diabetes patients from taking their medicine?

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Behavioral health issues drive gender gap among millennials

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

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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 global insulin shortage 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

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Even five percent weight loss can help your heart

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