Diabetes

Play-Based Interventions Delivered by Child Life Specialists: Teachable Moments for Youth With Type 1 Diabetes

14 minutes ago | Journal of Pediatric Health Care

Certified child life specialists are health care team members with advanced knowledge of child development. CCLSs can help establish a trajectory of engagement in diabetes...
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Taking A Hot Bath May Be The Workout You Need Right Now

3 hours ago | Scary Mommy

I am often tempted to fill the tub and take a long, hot soak. But then my kids scream and remind me how naïve I am to think I can enjoy such pleasures. Taking a bubble bath...
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Real-world data on artificial pancreas show time-in-range benefit

9 hours ago | Healio | 2 articles

More than 100,000 children and adults with type 1 diabetes using a hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery system maintained a blood glucose level in the recommended range 71.3% of...
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The impact of probiotics on the health-related quality of life of people with Type 2 diabetes

11 hours ago | Natural News

Researchers at the Sri Adichunchanagiri College of Pharmacy in India analyzed the impact of probiotics on the health-related quality of life of patients with Type 2 diabetes...
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Diabetes Patients Struggle to Find Rubbing Alcohol Amid COVID-19

11 hours ago | Medscape | 12 articles

Demand has exploded for rubbing alcohol and alcohol swabs, used as disinfectants against the coronavirus. People with diabetes who rely on the products for infection control...
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Knee OA Pain, Physical and Mental Status Worse With Diabetes

17 hours ago | MedPage Today

Study Authors: Annett Eitner, Adam G. Culvenor, et al. Target Audience and Goal Statement: Rheumatologists, endocrinologists, orthopedic surgeons, pain specialists, mental...
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As the country disinfects, diabetes patients can't find rubbing alcohol

18 hours ago | News Medical

While the masses hunt for toilet paper, Caroline Gregory and other people with diabetes are on a different mission: scouring stores for the rubbing alcohol or alcohol swabs...
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Top 10 Tips for Diabetes Telehealth Prophetic in Face of COVID-19

1 day ago | Web MD | 3 articles

A new article sets the stage for routine virtual diabetes visits, offering 10 top tips that will undoubtedly be of use for transforming care during the COVID-19 pandemic, and...
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Medical teams need to be extra vigilant when dealing with diabetics during COVID-19 pandemic

1 day ago | News Medical | 6 articles

Doctors need to pay particular attention to patients with endocrine disorders and diabetes mellitus in relation to COVID-19 infections, say leading endocrinologists.
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Metformin May Be of Benefit, Even in Advancing Kidney Disease

1 day ago | Medscape | 2 articles

In patients with type 2 diabetes and worsening kidney disease, use of metformin reduced mortality and progression to end-stage renal disease, without increasing the risk of...
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A warning to the world? New York now scrambling to address Coronavirus outbreak

New York is now serving as a “warning” to the rest of the United States - and the rest of the world, for that matter - as it continues to get battered by the COVID-19 pandemic... Read more ...

CDC Now Recommends That Americans Wear Cloth Face Masks In Public

CDC publishes guidelines on wearing cloth face masks in public After a lot of hemming and hawing on the topic of wearing face masks in public , the Centers For Disease Control... Read more ...

Cathe's April 2020 Workout Rotation

Hi Everyone! This month we'll push ourselves a little harder with a weekly combination of Hiit, weights and kickboxing. Get focused and get ready to work hard. Drink lots of... Read more ...

To Slow the Spread of Coronavirus, CDC Now Advises Wearing Cloth Face Masks...

The Centers For Disease Control is advising all Americans to wear cloth face masks in public , a new national guideline to combat the coronavirus outbreak. President Trump... Read more ...

COVID-19: People Living with OCD Struggle More during the Coronavirus Crisis

With a whole lot of fear and extreme anxiety circling around COVID-19, people with obsessive compulsive disorder are struggling more than usual by following too many hygienic... Read more ...

“How can I cope RIGHT NOW?” These self-care strategies might help you feel...

Every single one of us has gone through difficult times in our lives. But sometimes, something comes along that shatters everything. With the COVID-19 pandemic, we're... Read more ...

Do I Have COVID-19? Doctors' Free Tools May Tell

The goal of the tools is is to help people “self-triage,” find out if their symptoms may by consistent with COVID-19. Read more ...

Test for Coronavirus Antibodies Approved by FDA

The test checks for protective antibodies in a finger prick of blood, revealing whether a patient has ever been exposed to the coronavirus and now may have some immunity, The... Read more ...

Worried about coronavirus? Make sure you're getting enough zinc

If you're stuck at home and feeling a bit helpless when it comes to the coronavirus, you're not alone. When we hear how easily the disease is spread, you might think there's... Read more ...

Tweets That Sum Up How We Feel About The Quarantine StayHome Life

Well, friends, we're in this. I mean, we are IN THIS. And by “this,” I mean this forced stay-home-quarantine-because- social-distancing -is-a-word-we-all-use-now lifestyle... Read more ...