A successful pregnancy if you have diabetes comes down to planning and making sure you have the right health-care team behind you.
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Satchin Panda, University of California, San Diego et Pam Taub, University of California, San Diego
What if you could treat obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure just by limiting when you eat and drink all your calories? New research says it might work.
Africa is known to be where humans originated. This makes it the most genetically diverse region in the world. Diversity in other populations represents a subset of the diversity within Africa.
A man who has a prosthetic leg sits in a wheelchair. With better care, the need for amputations could be lessened.
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One of the worst consequences of diabetes is foot ulcers, which often lead to amputations. As Diabetes Awareness Month comes to an end, an expert explains the dangers and some promising solutions.
A vial of insulin. Prices for the drug, crucial for those with diabetes, have soared in recent years.
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World Diabetes Day provides an opportunity to look at the messaging around Walmart insulin, touted as a solution to soaring insulin prices. Cheaper insulins may not work as well for many people.
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provides insights into changes across people’s lives, helps evaluate interventions, and provides information for local, provincial and national planning.
The Democratic candidates hoping to replace Trump in 2020 debated a host of critical issues but never brought up the equally important challenge of Americans’ food security.
Slum residents were said to do less exercise because of cheap motorcycle taxis.
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Public health practitioners and marketers alike need to reflect on how their ads will be received by racialized groups who often feel negatively stereotyped.
There is a huge variety of sugar substitutes available. What’s the difference? Is one better for controlling blood sugar levels for diabetes? Is one better for individuals trying to lose weight?
Many couples share exercise, eating and weight patterns. Families of women with gestational diabetes and gestational hypertension more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes in the future.
AFL player Paddy McCartin, who has type 1 diabetes, wears a flash glucose monitoring device on his arm.
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A small patch allows people with diabetes to measure their blood glucose levels easily. But this technology isn’t currently subsidised, so many everyday Australians who could benefit are missing out.
Camel milk is mainly consumed in the Middle East and parts of Africa but has become fashionable in the West in recent years.
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Lipids in the so-called superfood reduce a central driver of the inflammation associated with type 2 diabetes.
A study from the University of Alberta suggests that the beneficial effects of cheese might not be related to fat but to some other component, such as protein or calcium.
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand