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Current research, pilot projects, publications on specific diseases as well as in general on preventing and managing chronic illness in vulnarable people.
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Diabetes : dLife - For Your Diabetes has as its mission to engage, educate and inspire people with type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes and their caregivers. As the leading diabetes site, dLife provides more than 80,000 pages of diabetes related information; 8,500 diabetic recipes; 400 broadcast quality videos; more than 100,000 forum topics; expert Q&A; a team of diabetes bloggers; and more.
Dealing with Illness and Disability : Entry on Council, Community and Government support by the London Borough of Hackney. Related to Jobs, Leisure, Transport, Hospitals, Meals, Physical Diabilities, Allowances.
Chronic Illness Coping : Lists articles online including lessons from Christopher Reeve, treatment of whole person, psychological control, and coping techniques.
Learning to Cope with Chronic Illness : Senior Citizens practical advise to patients and significant others.
Coping with Chronic Illness - for Families : Advise for family members, including communication, financial matters, dependance and independance and more resources.
Expert Patients Programme for Long-term Patients : Self-management course for confidence, skills and knowledge to manage chronic health conditions. Provides newsletter, explanation of program, people's views.
Coping with Chronic Illness - for Counselors : Explanation of defense mechanisms or coping styles to counselors of patients.
Coping with Chronic Illness - Speech for Men : Personal story on how to deal with physical, emotional and spiritual aspects; applies to anybody with longterm disease.
Coping with Chronic Illness Stages : Paper discusses illness as a process with stages: crisis, isolation, anger, reconstruction, intermittent depression, and renewal. Advice on how to deal with new situation. Adapted from "After The
Coping with Chronic Ilness and Depression : Advise to recognize depression and when to consult the doctor.
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Chronic Migraines Take a Greater Toll (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that
there's a difference between people who have migraines a lot and those who
have them less often: The most frequent sufferers are in worse health
overall, poorer and more depressed. |
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Biking to School Boosts Kids' Fitness (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- New British research
suggests that kids -- especially girls -- who ride bicycles to school are
in better shape than those who walk and take buses or cars. |
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Approval Expanded for Breast Cancer Drug Tykerb (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration has expanded approval for Tykerb (lapatinib) to include
postmenopausal women with hormone- and HER2-positive advanced breast
cancer who require hormone therapy. |
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New Theory Emerges on Darwin's Illness (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDay News) -- An Australian researcher
claims he has identified the illness that caused the renowned naturalist
Charles Darwin to suffer nausea, vomiting, headaches and skin problems for
most of his adult life. |
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