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Type 2 Diabetes Wreaks Havoc in Overweight Teens

Matt Cantor — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:33:22 CDT

Type 2 diabetes poses a particular problem for overweight teens, a study finds: Among hundreds of recently-diagnosed teenagers, almost half lost control of their blood sugar within a few years. Moreover, about one in five experienced serious complications from the illness. With a third of American kids and teens overweight...

For Some Diabetics, Answer May Be Surgery

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:07:38 CDT

It almost sounds too good to be true: You're obese, and suffering from Type 2 diabetes—how to best control your blood sugar? You can get on a strict regimen of diet, exercise, and medicine ... or just undergo weight-loss surgery. If surgery seems like the slightly easier solution, it turns...

Stick It, Haters: Paula Deen's Laughing All Way to Bank

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:31:34 CST

Reactions to Paula Deen's diabetes diagnosis— including ours! —have been largely derisive , but she's going to have the last laugh … "all the way to the bank," predicts Josh Ozersky in Time . If health nuts think this experience will finally teach Deen a lesson, they're dead wrong. We're talking about...

Deen Makes Unfortunate Declaration About Life

Polly Davis Doig — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:37:50 CST

Paula Deen, that bastion of moderation and recent convert to the church of Novo Nordisk after her not-so-recent diagnosis of type 2 diabetes , has a memoir out. Well, an Oprah-version of a memoir. Winfrey's magazine asks various celebs and non-celebs to succinctly sum up their lives in a "six-word memoir"...

Deen Confirms Diabetes, Partners With Drugmaker

Polly Davis Doig — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:40:16 CST

It's as official as it is unshocking: Butter-slinging celeb chef Paula Deen—she who combined a Krispy Kreme doughnut, hamburger, bacon, and fried egg and called it breakfast —confirms that she has Type 2 diabetes . But she's determined to make something positive out of the diagnosis, like maybe a profit:...

Moderate Drinking Can Fend Off Diabetes in Women

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:44:05 CST

Good news for you ladies who like a little bit of wine and a lot of carbs: A new study shows that middle-aged women who drink a moderate amount of alcohol but eat a large amount of refined carbohydrates are 30% less likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than women...

366M Now Have Diabetes

Kevin Spak — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:40:13 CDT

The diabetes epidemic is getting worse, the International Diabetes Federation said today, estimating that 366 million people across the globe now have the disease. In comments delivered at a European meeting in Lisbon, the group called the numbers "staggering," noting that 4.6 million people die of diabetes every year,...

Wisconsin Clinic: 2K Possibly Exposed to HIV

Rob Quinn — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:33:42 CDT

A Wisconsin health clinic has warned that 2,345 patients may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis, or other blood-borne diseases by a nurse who improperly used diabetic injection devices. The nurse, whose job involved teaching newly diagnosed diabetics how to use insulin pens, used the same pen every time...

Medical Monitors: New Domain for Hackers?

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:27:05 CDT

Even the human bloodstream isn't safe from computer hackers—a security researcher who is diabetic has identified flaws that could allow an attacker to remotely control insulin pumps and alter the readouts of blood-sugar monitors. As a result, diabetics could get too much or too little insulin, a hormone they...