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Quest Diagnostics Incorporated: The nation\'s leading provider of diagnostic testing, information, services, blood tests, and lab tests.
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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.
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.
Center for Research on Chronic Illness, Carolina School of Nursing : 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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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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Coach K: Osteoarthritis Can Be Beaten (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) -- As head coach of the Duke
University men's basketball team for the past 29 years, Mike Krzyzewski
has faced plenty of tough opponents. But none proved to be more formidable
than osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis and a leading cause
of disability in the United States. |
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Half of U.S. Babies Living Today May Reach 100 (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- If current life expectancy
trends continue, more than half of babies born in rich nations since 2000
will live to 100 years of age, and they'll have less disability than
elderly people in previous generations. |
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