A POSITIVE PERSON: PAULINE LIPSITZ
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THE POWER OF BALANCE
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Voice of the Diabetic, Fall 2005: Table of Contents
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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
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THE RIGHT INFORMATION
by Peter J. Nebergall, Ph.D.
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Peter J. Nebergall, Ph.D.
There are a lot of "experts"
out there, talking about your diet. They have an almost inexhaustible set of
"facts," "figures," and "theories" to cite -- and the end result is confusion.
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FINGER STICKING TECHNIQUES
by Ed Bryant
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We know blood glucose monitoring
is important because it helps us keep our diabetes under control. You should
test often. How you test matters too, as poor technique wastes strips and can
give you inaccurate readings. Good testing techniques will also minimize the
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ASK THE DOCTOR
by Wesley W. Wilson, MD
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NOTE: If you have any questions
for "Ask the Doctor," please send them to the VOICE editorial office. The only
questions Dr. Wilson will be able to answer are the ones used in this column.
Wesley W. Wilson, MD has
retired as an Internal Medicine practitioner at the Western Montana Clinic in