Brazil heat wave kills 32 elderly people
Thirty-two elderly people died in a southeastern Brazilian city this week because of a heat wave that has pushed temperatures to unseasonably high levels, a health official said Wednesday.

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Diabetes Health Care Expo In Augusta
Folks from all across the CSRA taking a look at their health.  Specifically, how to prevent and deal with diabetes.  Saturday, hundreds turned out for the second annual “Taking Control of Your Diabetes” health expo at Augusta’s downtown Marriott.  Lots of doctors on hand, as well as Mister Universe and 1999’s Miss America.  Along with workshops, folks were introduced to some of the latest state …

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Brazil heat wave kills 32 elderly people
Thirty-two elderly people died in a southeastern Brazilian city this week because of a heat wave that has pushed temperatures to unseasonably high levels, a health official said Wednesday.

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Obese woman wins fight for better parking spot
A morbidly obese Quebec woman with various health problems has won her legal fight for a better parking spot.

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Type 1 diabetes gets funding boost
The federal government’s boosting the subsidy for children needing insulin pumps to help manage juvenile type 1 diabetes.

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Emergency Diabetes Supplies Dispatched to Haiti
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM–(Marketwire – 01/17/10) – Editors Note: A photo is included with this press release. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and Australia-based non-governmental organization Insulin for Life have launched a relief effort for people with diabetes in quake-stricken Haiti. A shipment of insulin, meters, test strips and other supplies has been rushed to the Haitian Foundation …

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Newly Identified Gene Variants Linked to Diabetes
Discovery could lead to new type 2 treatments, researchers say.

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BREAKING NEWS: Have you seen Chester Scales?
A 35-year-old man who suffers from schizophrenia and diabetes went missing from North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center on the afternoon of Jan. 9. Police are asking for the public’s help in finding him.

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Staff gets insulin instead of swine flu vaccine
Wellesley school officials said several staff members at an elementary school had to be taken to the hospital after being injected with insulin rather than the swine flu vaccine. Superintendent Bella Wong said no students were ever in danger at Friday’s vaccine clinic for staff at Schofield Elementary School and all the people who got the wrong shot have recovered.

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Colo. Seeing More Swine Flu In Latinos, Blacks
Colorado health officials say they are seeing higher rates of swine flu among blacks and Latinos this flu season. Chief medical officer Ned Calonge at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment says diabetes and asthma increase a person’s risk of complications from swine flu, and Colorado has high asthma and diabetes rates, especially among Latinos and blacks. The health department …

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American Diabetes Association Announces New Board Members and Officers
Chair of the Board Nash M. Childs, PE David K. Bloomgarden, MD, FACE Executive Vice President Physician Leader Bancroft Construction Company Scarsdale Medical Group, LLP Wilmington, DE Harrison, NY President, Health Care & Education Jeffrey Caballero, MPH Christine T. Tobin, RN, MBA, CDE Executive Director Diabetes Educator Association of Asian Pacific Atlanta, GA Community Health Organizations …

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Siblings key in pregnancy-related diabetes risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with a family history of diabetes who are free from the disease themselves are more likely to develop pregnancy-related diabetes, a new study confirms.

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Johnson & Johnson partners with charity for juvenile diabetes to start testing artificial pancreas
TRENTON, NJ. (AP) — An experimental artificial pancreas will soon be tested in diabetes patients, potentially sparing them from its most dangerous complications and frequent blood sugar checks and insulin injections.

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BCH diabetes program gets recognition
The prestigious American Diabetes Association Education Recognition Certificate for a quality diabetes self-management education program was recently awarded to the Diabetes Center at Boone County Hospital.

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