Man pleads guilty to selling defective diabetes test strips - WTHR

South Bend - A northern Indiana recycling company owner has pleaded guilty to selling defective diabetic glucose test strips, many of which were voluntarily recalled by the manufacturer because they were defective. William Greg Kroa admitted in ...

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Adolescents with arthritis need more information when transitioning to ... - Genetic Engineering News

Helping adolescents with arthritis develop the skills and secure resources to assure that their health care needs are met as they transition to adulthood is an important issue in the U.S. In general, the frequency of which young people with special ...

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News Review From Harvard Medical School -- Health Care Spending Rises ... - InteliHealth

The good news: The rate of increase in health care costs is slowing a bit. The bad news: The change was due almost entirely to a slowdown in spending on prescription drugs. All other major health care costs stayed the same or rose compared with the ...

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Baylor Health Care System appoints president of new diabetes program ... - Pegasus News

Baylor Health Care System recently named Donna Rice as president of the Southern Sector Health Initiative (SSHI), a new program designed by Baylor to create a center of excellence for the prevention and treatment of diabetes. Rice will be responsible ...

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A person in Britain is diagnosed with diabetes every THREE minutes - Daily Mail

High risk: Health checks for overweight patients, like above, has seen diabetes diagnoses soar by 50% in just a year The number of people diagnosed with diabetes has soared by 50 per cent in just a year. An analysis of official figures shows at least ...

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New Mexicans Surveyed To Improve Their Health - eMaxHealth.com

Starting at the beginning of January, the New Mexico Department of Health will call New Mexicans to survey them about their health behaviors for the Department’s annual survey, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. The survey is designed to ...

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Time to take good care of your health - Chicago Defender

Your personal health outcome is directly dependent upon how you use your hand. Your hand is directed by your behavior. Indeed, what your hand puts into your mouth is the major determinant of whether your risk for the development of acute or chronic ...

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