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Saint Elizabeth Guide: Management of Hypoglycemia in Children
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Keeping Students with Diabetes Safe and Healthy

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Why You'll Listen to Me - but Not To Your Doctor"
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by Carolyn Thomas

As I like to remind my women’s heart health presentation audiences, I am not a physician. I’m not a nurse. I am merely a dull-...

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Diabetes: through the eyes of a child
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When a child is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, it may spark a range of emotions including anger, sadness, frustration and fear. Simple activities like swimming, sleepovers, taking a family trip or just grabbing a snack may all become...

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Improving Diabetes Care for Frail Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Comorbid Chronic Conditions
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Hit your Target
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Improve blood sugar control in adults with type 2 diabetes through new advancements

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How To Be a "Good" Patient
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Here’s how to be a “GOOD PATIENT”:

  • Contract an acute illness.
  • Go see your doctor.
  • Get diagnosed.
  • Take your meds.
  • Get better.
  • Thank your brilliant doctor...
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Dietary changes may prevent autoimmunity that leads to type 1 diabetes in at-risk babies: NEJM study
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Changing the diets of babies with high genetic risk for type 1 diabetes protected them from developing the autoimmunity that destroys insulin-producing cells over the first ten years of life. This just-released research data comes from the world...

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Shoe Fitting Tips for People with Diabetes
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People living with diabetes often have reduced circulation and sensation in their feet (called neuropathy), and are not able to feel if something in the shoe is irritating their foot. If the foot is irritated by the shoe, it can cause a wound or...

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Why Hearing The Diagnosis Can Hurt Worse Than The Heart Attack
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Researchers in the U.K. have found that heart attack survivors have a disturbingly high incidence of undiagnosed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  Terrifying symptoms, invasive procedures, and a life-altering diagnosis of heart...

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Canadian Diabetes Association: Free Learning Online "Healthy Living Series"
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Saint Elizabeth Health Care is continuing our focus on diabetes through engagement activities in online diabetes education, diabetes discussion forums, educational webinars (coming next week!), and highlighting key community partner resources...

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Dietary changes may prevent autoimmunity that leads to type 1 diabetes in at-risk babies: NEJM study
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Dietary changes may prevent autoimmunity that leads to type 1 diabetes in at-risk babies: NEJM study
Aging and Health: An Examination of Differences between Older Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal People
Skin and Wound Care Excellence: Integrating Best Practice Evidence
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