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How Did Medics Drop British Grandmother Into Icy North Sea?

Police are investigating a bizarre incident at sea involving a 73-year-old British grandmother who took ill on a cruise ship and was accidentally dropped into the sub-zero North Sea by medics trying to transfer her to a rescue boat. Janet Richardson, a diabetic from Cumbria in the U.K., was on the Ocean Princess off...

Studies Show Coffee Drinkers Get Health Perks

Coffee lovers have a reason to celebrate. Recent studies have shown that rather than being harmful, coffee actually provides a variety of health benefits. Alamy Drink up! A recent study shows that women who drink at least one cup of coffee a day have a lower risk of stroke than women who drank less or...

America's New Waistline: The Diabetes Belt [VIDEO]

New Dietary Guidelines Call for Less Salt, Sugar, Solid Fat

With the new year here and Americans everywhere trying to lose weight, the federal government's new dietary guidelines released today call for cutbacks in salt as well as in calories from added sugar and solid fats like butter. The guidelines, which come out every five years, tell people 51 and older, all blacks and...

Setback for Afrezza Diabetes Inhaler: 5 Facts About MannKind Founder Alfred Mann

Shares of biotech firm MannKind Corp. (MNKD) fell today after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration failed to approve its next-generation insulin-delivery device, an inhaler called Afrezza. Regulators are requesting two more studies to test the device's effectiveness in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. MannKind...

Background on diabetes

Diabetes mellitus, often simply referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced.

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