New HumanWare Tool is Incredible Boon for Diabetics with Vision Loss
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New HumanWare Tool is Incredible Boon for Diabetics with Vision Loss
by Tom Ley
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DAN President’s Message: Diabetes and National Federation of the Blind Philosophy
DAN President’s Message:
Diabetes and National Federation of the Blind Philosophy
by Mike Freeman
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Voice of the Diabetic,Winter 2009: Table of Contents
The
Extraordinary
Days of Dick
Conners
Vol. 24, No. 1
Winter Edition 2009
Hard Times
Diabetes on a Stretched Budget
Type 2s
Time for Insulin?
Wound
Care Basics
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A LONG LIFE WITH DIABETES
by Ed Bryant
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Decades ago, when diabetes
care was not as advanced, or as convenient, as it is today, many medical professionals
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AFTERNOON BLOOD TEST MAY MISS
DIABETES
(A news release from NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
Doctors who give their afternoon patients the fasting plasma
glucose test are likely to miss half of the diabetes cases in this group, according
to research published in The Journal of the American Medical Association on
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DIABETES: LOW VISION OPTIONS
(This story appeared in
VOICE OF THE DIABETIC, Volume 16, No. 2, April 2001, published by the Diabetes
Action Network of the National Federation of the Blind.
If you have diabetes type
1 or 2, you are at risk for diabetic eye diseases. These may include diabetic
retinopathy, cataracts, and glaucoma. The most common of these complications
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HELP PREVENT MEDICAL ERRORS
The topic of medical errors
is frequently in the news today. Various estimates suggest as many as 98,000
people die in U.S. hospitals as a result of misdiagnosis, misprescription, and
inappropriate or botched procedures. What can you, the patient, do, to help
keep yourself from becoming a statistic?
First, COMMUNICATE with