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Diabetic Skin Care Products

The Anastasia Marie Diabetic Pure Skin Therapy Total

Skin Care System for Face and Body is a complete line of

products specifically formulated for diabetic dry skin,

including: Diapedic Foot Cream, Hand and Body Cream,

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FREE VIDEO

Insulin manufacturer Eli Lilly and Company is offering

a free VHS videocassette titled "Stop: Take Control of

Diabetes." To obtain a copy, while supplies last, call: 1-

800-785-3226.

DIABETIC FOOT CARE

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Equipment and Supplies

Comprehensive Health Services, Inc., offers a

customer direct diabetic supply program. They stock glucose

monitors for the sighted and visually impaired, test strips,

syringes, and other diabetic products. Medicare and private

Rezulin for Type II Insulin Users

NEW DIABETES DRUG
FOR TYPE II INSULIN USERS

Troglitazone (trade name Rezulin, from Parke-Davis), is

the first of a new class of oral medications, the

thiazolidinediones, for treatment of type II (NIDDM)

diabetes. Where the sulfonylureas, the traditional oral

diabetes medications, stimulate the failing pancreas to

produce more insulin, Rezulin directly attacks the problem

of insulin resistance, the increasing inability to process

Scoring Against Diabetes

SCORING AGAINST
DIABETES

by Charles L. Ray III

I have had diabetes for 17 years. Unfortunately for

me, for the first eight years, I chose not to take care of

myself. I did not eat right. I ate all the things

diabetics were not supposed to eat, then took additional

insulin "to compensate for it." I never checked my blood

sugar to see how my diabetes was doing, and the worst thing

of all, I never used to exercise!

Skiing Blind

SKIING BLIND
by Debbie Dickinson

"No, no," I said to Michael, the adaptive ski

instructor at the Wintergreen ski resort in Charlottesville,

Virginia, "I don't think I really need any more adrenalin in

my life. But, anyway, tell me how you handle those blind

skiers, just to satisfy my curiosity."

Michael had just met me, and I could feel that he

wanted to convince me how I needed to add skiing to my life

Social Security, SSI and Medicare

SOCIAL SECURITY,
SSI, AND MEDICARE FACTS FOR 1997

by James
Gashel

This article appeared in the December
1996 edition of the BRAILLE MONITOR, published by the National Federation of
the Blind, for whom James Gashel serves as Director of Governmental Affairs.

Spotlight: Ruth Woodworth

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