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diabetes
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R.I. program provides care outside hospitals in effort to reduce ER use
Using community health workers to work with frequent emergency room visitors is showing some success in reducing ER use. The…
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Interactive tools, new apps being used to improve health care #ahcj13
Using technology in health care to interact with people certainly opens up new avenues of communication and yields more data…
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Experts stress lifestyle changes as prevention, treatment for diabetes #ahcj13
Diabetes is prevalent in the United States, and the numbers continue to balloon. In a Health Journalism 2013 session focusing…
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Causes, consequences of Nashville’s diabetes hot zone
In The Tennessean (and USA Today), Tom Wilemon has assembled a series of reports on what he calls “the diabetes…
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Women’s health and the ACA: Look beyond contraception
If you have been listening to the contraception debate in Washington (sort of hard to avoid, isn’t it?), you may…
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AHCJ-CDC Fellows learn about diabetes project
Editor’s note: This post, from the AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellows‘ visit to the CDC, originally reported the CDC is close…
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Latino diabetes boom caused by range of factors
The Ventura County Star‘s Kim Lamb Gregory looked into the high rate of Type 2 diabetes among the local Latino…
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Disparities in health care complex, hard to correct
Seven years after the landmark IOM study which established that racial minorities had worse health and were getting poorer care…
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KQED profiles those who live with disease, injury
This month’s edition of Health Dialogues, part of KQED’s California Report, focuses on living with disease. In the report, KQED…
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Diabetes study ups ante for comparing treatments
Of all the potential reforms to the health-care system, one of the most profound might turn out to be a…