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Dr. Fran Cogen

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Director, Child/Adolescent Diabetes Program at Children's Nat'l

Diabetes Care in the School Setting

Children spend a great deal of time in the school setting for both academic and extracurricular activities. As such, it is important that they be safe at school. In a recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer (February 8, 2012) by Linda Siminerio of the American Diabetes Association and Alan L. Yatvin, "School health care goes beyond nurses,"... Read moreChevron
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My Bariatric Life

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In 2003, I made a decision that would forever change my life. Since that time, I have been following a program of lifetime obesity disease management to sustain long term weight loss. It began with bariatric (weight loss) surgery followed by changing the way I eat, mild exercising, and attending a support group (NOT my surgeon's support group). Today, I'm a size medium and living life larger than ever!

Bariatric Surgery Psychological Evaluation: What to Expect - My Bariatric Life

A report published in The American Journal of Medicine (AJM) lends additional support to the discovery that people who receive bariatric surgery have a suicide rate that is greater than the average.   This is not to imply that weight-loss surgery itself is a catalyst to suicide, because there is no convincing evidence to support this. The... Read moreChevron
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James Thompson MD

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Board Certified Allergist and Internist

8 Tips on How to Improve Asthma Control

I wish I could say all my patients have well controlled asthma but I doubt that will ever be the case since I have hundreds of them, and they all have unique trigger factors and symptom complexes. Some patients only have flare-ups associated with upper respiratory infections (common cold or sinusitis). Other patients rarely get colds but have... Read moreChevron
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David Mendosa

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Medical Journalist Living with Diabetes and Author of Fitness and Photography for Fun, www.mendosa.com/fitnessblog

Eating Your Heart Out?

The important new book, Eating Your Heart Out?, is indeed about eating and your heart. But it is much more.I think that it started as an explanation of the BalancePoint protocol. But it is much more than that too.The authors are Richard C. Williams, Ph.D., Binx Selby, and Binx’s wife, Linda Jade Fong. I have know all three of the authors for... Read moreChevron
Peglove

Peglove

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Loving Wife, Teacher, Life-Long Learner, Traveler of the World

Waiting is a Stress Test!

Last week was the longest week of my life. knowing that I had to start school, but I was also waiting on bone scan results from the friday before. I was not really that worried, but the stress of it all happening at the same time has me a little whackado. The results were clean, no evidence of disease in my bones.   So my bone pain could... Read moreChevron

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