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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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GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care (AP)
AP - Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul. |
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Health Tip: Help Prevent Bunions (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- A bunion is a painful protrusion at the base
of the big toe that can make even walking a chore. A severe bunion can
affect the alignment of several toes, causing some to overlap. |
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Mammography: What to Do Now? (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- When a U.S. government task
force recommended that women wait until they're 50 to get their first
mammogram to check for breast cancer, reaction was swift. |
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