Topic: United States
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 ...
Diabetes is costing the United States up to 160 billion dollars per year and might affect one-third of Americans by the middle of the century, former US President Bill Clinton said Sunday in Dubai."By the middle of this century, the diabetes rate ...
She is average height and weight, her attire stylish but sensible.. While Illinois has the nation's 27th highest percentage of obese adults, we have the fourth highest childhood obesity rate in the country: Our local data indicate that Chicago's children are overweight ...
Consuming sugar may make people sweeter-tempered and less prone to violence, multiple U.S. studies suggest. In one study, subjects were given lemonade sweetened either with sugar or an artificial substitute, Postmedia News reported. Researchers also found that states with high rates of ...
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a program run by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). NHANES is a survey that combines interviews and physical examinations to assess the health of adults and children in the United States. ...
The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one on overview of the etiology and natural history of diabetic retinopathy and another on endpoints used in clinical studies of diabetic retinopathy therapies. Introduction GINA J. RYAN Am J Health-Syst Pharm. ...
Intensive, Practical Intervention Strategies Proposed To Reverse Trend, Help Prevent Health Care Catastrophe. "Our new research shows there is a diabetes time bomb ticking in America, but fortunately there are practical steps that can be taken now to defuse it," said Simon ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than half of Americans will have diabetes or be prediabetic by 2020 at a cost to the U.S. health care system of $3.35 trillion if current trends go on unabated, according to analysis of a new report ...
The sunchoke is a member of the sunflower family and is native to the United States. As long as they're stored properly, sunchokes last for up to a week. With a couple of precautions, packing and shipping sunchokes is a simple task.. ...
November is American Diabetes Month and Integrium LLC, a Contract Research Organization (CRO) with a therapeutic focus on cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, is at the forefront of clinical research to improve diabetes treatment. Eileen McAuley, Chief Operating Officer of Integrium, explains that ...
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