Topic: United States
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Diabetic pilot Douglas Cairns plans a flying expedition to the North Pole to show what those with his illness can accomplish in the air.In most of the world, diabetics are forbidden from flying private planes.Cairns had to give ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters Life!) - Diabetic pilot Douglas Cairns plans a flying expedition to the North Pole to show what those with his illness can accomplish in the air.In most of the world, diabetics are forbidden from flying private planes.Cairns had to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A diabetes expert group backed the use of weight-loss surgery on Monday for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in severely obese patients.According to a statement from the International Diabetes Federation, there is increasing evidence that the health of ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with diabetes are urged to always wash their hands before testing their blood sugar. But if soap and water are nowhere to be found, using the "second drop" of blood may be OK, a new study ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson, which has been beset by a seemingly endless stream of product recalls, has recalled hundreds of thousands of potentially leaky insulin pump cartridges that could lead to serious health problems and death.It also has been ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Already dubbed America's "stroke belt," the southeastern U.S. just earned another dubious distinction as the nation's "diabetes belt," government researchers said Tuesday.They used county-by-county data to mark those areas where people are most at risk for the ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - People with diabetes in the United States and several other countries do not get effective treatment to control their disease, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, and health insurance, not personal wealth, plays a big role in determining which diabetics ...
The number of diabetics in the United States has grown to nearly 26 million, a 10 percent increase over 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday, expressing concern about the trend."These distressing numbers show how important it is to ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study, portable meters used to gauge blood sugar levels in pregnant women with diabetes gave readings that differed from lab tests by up to 16 percent.That kind of inaccuracy is concerning, researchers say, because ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories is recalling as many as 359 million blood glucose testing strips that could give false results to diabetics, the company and U.S. regulators said on Wednesday.Abbott said the strips -- used with its Precision Xtra, Precision Xceed ...
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