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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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Health Tip: Screening for Cancer (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) --
The best way to get a good prognosis when it comes to cancer is to get
diagnosed as early as possible -- and that's where cancer screening tests
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Psychotherapy Beats Light Treatment for SAD (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- As daylight hours dwindle,
people with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) can often feel the onset of
wintertime depression, but a new study suggests one type of remedy may
work better than another at banishing the SAD blues. |
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Treating COPD Early Improves Outcomes (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Although there is no cure
for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), starting treatment early
may slow progression of the illness and add years to the lives of
sufferers, new research finds. |
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