Those receiving care were likely to be suffering from stoke, arthritis, dementia, cardiac disease, or diabetes.
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Personalized medicine can also help profile someone's potential risk for contracting a disease like cancer or diabetes.
In most states, insurance carriers can deny coverage to individuals with a preexisting condition like cancer or diabetes.
They are frail, often suffer from multiple chronic diseases (such as heart failure, dementia, or diabetes), and are impoverished.
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Women are less likely than men to suffer from heart disease or diabetes.
Maybe one of those research groups will hit clinical paydirt and come up with a cure for Parkinson's or diabetes.
The company has screened thousands of varieties of plant and microbe searching for agents that might help fight inflammation, cancer or diabetes.
You'd believe that a patient with a hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day.
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Pharmacies in Wales are offering free walk-in health assessments to help predict people's risk of stroke or diabetes in a two-week health campaign.
Regardless, responded Lakind and Goodman, they claim they consistently found no associations between urinary BPA and heart disease or diabetes across four NHANES datasets.
With its large population, Carolinas generates large quantities of data that lets its analysts look at populations with asthma or diabetes and monitor the effects of treatment programs.
Pregnant women mustn't eat too much as it may raise the baby's risk of obesity or diabetes, but they mustn't diet as that could have a similar effect.
Lyrica was finally approved on the last day of 2004--but solely as a treatment for pain due to nerve damage from shingles or diabetes and as a controlled substance.
But Catherine Arnold of Credit Suisse First Boston says the study seems designed to play to Zyprexa's strengths, as patients will be switched off before weight gain or diabetes can develop.
Starting in 2014, insurance companies can no longer charge you more, carve out benefits, or deny you coverage altogether because you have cancer or diabetes or simply because you are a woman.
For example, the app warns that ozone levels between 101 and 150 are dangerous for people with lung disease, heart disease, or diabetes as well as the the elderly and children under 18.
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Eggan's technique, which is the subject of a paper in the current issue of Nature, creates stem cells specific to a particular disease, like cancer or diabetes, without a supply of human egg cells.
Trainee anaesthetists will be able to practice on Stan, making sure they take into account factors such as height and weight, and whether the patient has a chronic condition such as asthma or diabetes.
Obesity-related diseases such as asthma or diabetes disappear.
With windchills approaching the single digits and below zero, it is possible to develop frostnip with progression to frostbite in exposed areas in as little as 20-30 minutes, especially in those patients with peripheral vascular disease, a history of smoking or diabetes.
Tight budgets are leading more states to turn to managed care, and Amerigroup is ready with physicians, nurses, nutritionists and active outreach which is especially for pregnant women and young mothers and people with chronic diseases like congestive heart failure or diabetes.
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In short, bariatric surgery involves so many risks that it should be used only as a last resort after diet and exercise have failed and then only with patients at high risk of mortality (from heart disease or diabetes, for example) because of their weight.
UnitedHealth Group, an American insurer, estimates that 32% of the UAE's adults may have diabetes or pre-diabetes by 2020.
Patients found to have diabetes or prediabetes are then typically referred to diabetes education at Novant or elsewhere.
Your doctor may refer you to additional health professionals who specialize in diabetes management, such as an endocrinologist, a registered dietitian or a diabetes educator.
Dr. Nissen consults for many pharmaceutical companies, including companies making or developing diabetes drug.
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There are other children born with disease and disability, like cystic fibrosis or juvenile diabetes.
Abnormalities in these risk factors are widespread among the growing numbers of people who are obese or overweight or have diabetes.
People who have HIV, cancer, (undergoing chemotherapy or radiation), diabetes, or who are on immunosuppressant medications are at risk for developing shingles outbreaks.
The paper, which Nissen and Topol wrote with Kathy Wolski, a Cleveland Clinic statistician, combines results from five clinical trials of Pargluva in which the drug was compared to either placebo or other diabetes drugs.
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