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FDA: Diabetes Drug Avandia To Be Pulled From Retail Pharmacies In November
For several years, prescription diabetes medicine Avandia has been at the center of a debate about whether the medication’s heart attack risk was high enough to pull it from pharmacies. Now, nearly...
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Utah KFC: Buy Humongous, Sugary Drink And We'll Contribute $1 To Diabetes...
A promotion at a Utah KFC seemingly gives customers the opportunity to aid diabetes research while doing their best to make themselves possible patients. Selfish Giving posts a KFC window ad that...
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Pregnant Passenger Says TSA Confiscated Her Insulin
The ever-vigilant Transportation Security Administration has kept the air safe from harmless fluids by confiscating a pregnant traveler’s insulin and ice packs as she tried to board a flight from...
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5 Things You Can Do To Prevent Diabetes
Nationwide obesity, combined with genetic factors, makes diabetes a fact of life for our society, but no one needs to accept the eventual contraction of the disease as a foregone conclusion. There are...
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Diabetic Walgreens Staffer: I Was Fired For Eating A $1.39 Bag Of Chips...
A former San Francisco-area Walgreens worker with diabetes says she was fired from her job of nearly two decades because, feeling a hypoglycemic attacking coming, she chose to eat a $1.39 bag of potato...
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Study: Diabetes Sufferers More Likely To Get Dementia
Those who are afflicted with diabetes are apparently more at risk of suffering dementia than others. A study confirmed the link between the conditions that researchers had long thought to be true. ABC...
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Burger King Billboard Gets Diabetes Graffiti
Someone has graffitied this Burger King billboard in downtown Seattle to transform it into criticism about how sugary fast food contributes to diabetes and the obesity crisis. The original billboard...
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Scientists Suggest Restricting Sugar Sales For Youngsters
Arguing that sugar is as additive as tobacco or alcohol, scientists at the University of California San Francisco say that the sweet stuff should be regulated in much the same way as those products....
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Donate To Diabetes Research, Get Four Frostys From Wendy’s
It could always be worse. Almost exactly a year ago, we shared a KFC promotion that donated part of the purchase price of a ginormous soft drink to type 2 diabetes research. You know, the kind of...
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Well-Meaning Walgreens Employees Raise Money For Diabetes By Selling Sweets
We find it totally excellent and kind of touching that employees at reader Ashlie’s local Walgreens store are holding an employee bake sale for a health-related charity. Perhaps the disease they were...
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Was McDonald’s Right To Refuse Service To Diabetic Walk-Up Customer At...
While we understand why a fast food place would only serve late-night customers through the drive-thru window, we’ve never quite understood why these eateries refuse to serve customers who pop by on...
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No Tax On Sugary Drinks In California After State Assembly Committee Vote
California lawmakers trying to get a $0.02 tax imposed on sodas and other sugary drinks in the state have come up empty, after the proposed measure failed to pass an Assembly committee. Supporters said...
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Diabetes Patients Are Losing Limbs And Sight Because They Can’t Afford Insulin
Earlier this week, we shared the concerns of patients who are struggling with the rising cost of EpiPens, injection devices that can save lives in the case of a severe allergic reaction to foods or...
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Lilly Meets With Diabetes Patients, Starts Discounted Insulin Program
Even though injectable vials of insulin have been around for nearly a century, and synthetic insulin for almost 40 years, there is no generic form of the vital diabetes medication. In recent years, the...
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Diabetes Drug Invokana Must Warn Patients About Increased Risk Of Foot, Leg...
A new class of diabetes medicines is heavily advertised on TV and shows great promise in getting patients’ blood sugar levels down, but a safety announcement from the Food and Drug Administration warns...
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