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

Resolution 2008-07

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

NFB State Conventions for Spring 2009

Evaluating Glucose Meters: Talk is Cheap, But Access is Golden

Voice of the Diabetic,Winter 2009: Table of Contents

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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