DiabetesMine Getting A Makeover: The One-Week Countdown

Hello Readers and Friends,This has been in the making for the better part of a year: we’re very excited to announce that as of next week, Nov. 1 (also the kick-off of National Diabetes Awareness Month), DiabetesMine.com will be getting a whole new…

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Press Release: Center for Oral Health receives grant to conduct oral health assessment of Older Adults POMONA, Calif. – The Center for Oral Health has received a $170,000 grant from The California Wellness Foundation (CalWellness) to conduct an oral health assessment of older adults in California over the next two years. “California is home to nearly 7 million residents who are 60 or older. Within a few years, one in five Californians will be 65 or older, and will be increasingly diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, financial resources and living conditions. As people age, they continue to be plagued by oral health problems; in fact, in the U.S. today, only 28 percent of older adults (ages 65-74) have...
"Adherence" Is the New "Compliance" You all know how much we hate the term "compliant," and especially its antonym "noncompliant"- suggesting a bunch of naughty, misbehaving patients who are simply too lazy or stubborn to follow orders. Ugh!It's been encouraging in the last few year......
Emily O’Dell: Breaking the Silence: Mental Health Awareness Month in Beirut While on the surface our mental health awareness work in Lebanon looks like an innovation, it's more like a reclamation -- since the first mental hospitals in the world appeared in the Middle East. Read more: Mental Health, Mental Illness, Education, Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Health Issues, Lebanon, Beirut, Middle East, High School, History, Eating Disorders, Self-Injury, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Drug Abuse, Suicide, Suicide Prevention, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Cairo, Baghdad, Advocacy, Morocco, Health Insurance, Migrant Workers, Healthy Living News...
Betting Your Diabetes Future On… Baby Teeth? From the "Weird and Wonderful" File:Another booth I happened upon last month while visiting the Children with Diabetes conference in Orlando definitely stopped me in my tracks: dental stem cells for diabetes?! Could someone be seriously running a ......
Eating Disorders Are Deadly, But Who’s to Blame? (Op-Ed) – Yahoo News Yahoo NewsEating Disorders Are Deadly, But Who's to Blame? (Op-Ed)Yahoo NewsWho is to blame for your eating disorder? The answer is no one. Current science suggests eating disorders are biologically based, influenced by numerous complex environmental factors coming together — as they did for me, to create a perfect storm of ...Stigma means eating disorder sufferers not getting treatmentNorthern Starall 3 news articles »...