Juvenile diabetes group will gather on Feb. 24 (East Brunswick Sentinel)

The Mid-Jersey Chapter of Juvenile Diabetes C.A.R.E.S. (Connecting Area Resources for Education and Support) will meet from 1:30-3 p.m. on Feb. 24 at Family Martial Arts Academy, 17 N. Fourth Ave., Highland Park.

Seminars encourage proactive role in addressing diabetes (Edwardsville Journal)

Jessica Kerr, an assistant professor in the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy, knows that medicine only goes so far when it comes to diabetes, which affects an estimated 17,000 in Madison County.

Queens local briefs: War on diabetes (New York Daily News)

Beth Israel Medical Center is launching a $255,000 campaign in Queens to improve diabetes education and care for South Asians, who have the city's highest incidence of Type 2 diabetes but often go undiagnosed.

Hypoglycemia Alert Dogs Offer Assistance To People With Diabetes (Medical News Today)

Glucose monitors, test strips, and lancets: people with diabetes are all too familiar with the equipment used to test their blood glucose (sugar) levels. Now some people are adding a different kind of aid to their diabetes management regimen.

More education may mean less memory loss, a U-M researcher finds (Detroit Free Press)

Memory problems, including Alzheimer's, appeared less common in people 70 and older in 2002 compared with seniors nearly a decade earlier, a study released today shows.

Hopwood's Physical Education class eats fresh at Subway (Saipan Tribune)

A total of 150 eighth-grade physical education students from Hopwood Junior High School have gone in separate batches on a field trip to Subway in Chalan Piao to learn more about healthy eating habits with lessons learned to be included in their school quiz.

Road race/walk set to aid diabetes center (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)

OXFORD - The Barton Center for Diabetes Education will hold its eighth annual St. Patrick's Road Race/Walk at 1 p.m. March 15.

Timelines needed for QIP (Scoop.co.nz)

Diabetes New Zealand welcomes the release of the national Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Quality Improvement Plan. The national organisation for people affected by diabetes agrees with the Ministry of Health that this is an important step towards finalising a nationally accepted programme for dealing with these serious health problems but would like to see timelines for action.

Gruesome harvest in India (Chicago Tribune)

In a country where organ pirates made $1 billion, officials fight back with education, other efforts to boost legal donation NEW DELHIâ€”For the past seven years, Rajesh Gupta has spent 12 hours a week in a hospital bed, hooked up to a hemodialysis machine. He would prefer to undergo a transplant to replace his failed kidneys. But India has no national organ waiting list, few registered organ ...

Safety Medical Products (ASX:SFP) Announce Supply Of Retractable Syringes To The National Diabetes Services Scheme (Medical News Today)

In an Australian first, people with diabetes will soon have free access to retractable syringes supplied through the National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS).

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