Allowing welfare recipients to purchase soda as part of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is essentially the government subsidizing obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
In a groundbreaking study, a 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes has started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells derived from her own body.
At least six in ten older Americans may suffer from heart disease in the coming 30 years, according to the American Heart Association (AHA).
An Ohio mother was sentenced for manslaughter after feeding her diabetic four-year-old daughter a diet consisting mainly of Mountain Dew.
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Almost 3,000 people who claim to have suffered illnesses from China’s dodgy coronavirus vaccine signed a petition asking Chinese Communist Party officials to take responsibility for their illnesses and plan to appear at this week’s “Two Sessions” policy meeting in Beijing.
A 400-pound former Wayne State University student is suing the school for discrimination after they didn’t allow him to complete his physical education requirement virtually.
Tech giant Apple, known for its iPhones and iPads, reportedly has a secret project underway that could change the way people monitor their blood glucose levels. The tech giant is developing a noninvasive blood glucose monitor in a form similar to an Apple Watch that can monitor the glucose level of diabetics without having to draw blood.
An elderly custodian in Florida who became trapped inside an Orange County holding cell recently for three nights does not want anyone else to experience the same thing.
A British aid worker detained by pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine has died in captivity, a separatist official said Friday.
El Salvador debuted a public service announcement (PSA) on Monday urging citizens of the Central American country to attain an “ideal weight” through a healthy diet and exercise to reduce the chance of developing complications from a possible Chinese coronavirus infection.
A shift manager at a Michigan McDonald’s saved a man suffering from diabetic shock after his wife frantically asked for help over the drive-thru speaker.
After an emergency at school, Grady Lucas’s community has pitched in to buy him a diabetic alert dog.
LOS ANGELES — Wilford Brimley, who worked his way up from movie stunt rider to an indelible character actor who brought gruff charm, and sometimes menace, to a range of films that included “Cocoon,” “The Natural” and “The Firm,” has died. He was 85.
The coronavirus has caused nationwide fear, and more than 127,000 people have died in the United States, but heart disease is the leading cause of death in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Trump announced new Medicare plans on Tuesday to provide diabetic seniors with low-cost insulin. The administration estimates that the new plans would reduce insulin costs by 66 percent.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday at the White House said that African-Americans were suffering more deaths proportionally during the coronavirus epidemic. “It has been disproportional,” Trump said. “They are getting hit very, very hard.”
Officials in Louisiana, which had 9,150 cases of the deadly coronavirus on Thursday, have noticed a preexisting condition trend among those who have passed away due to COVID-19.
Democrat presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden (D) vowed to find cures for cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease during his Super Tuesday speech in Los Angeles, California.
A little boy in Baytown, Texas, recently saved his mother’s life thanks to his quick thinking in a dangerous situation.
John Longworth, the Director-General of the British Chambers of Commerce turned Brexit Party MEP, has hailed a guarantee from Britain’s biggest insulin supplier that there will be no shortages of the medication if the country makes a clean, no-deal break with the European Union at the end of October.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg unveiled his “Douglass Plan,” which he said is for “restoration” of the black community from the effects of racism.
The “world’s heaviest woman” has shed half her weight — around a quarter of a tonne — in the two months she’s been in India for treatment, doctors said.
Climate change caused Brexit, Al Gore has claimed. Gore, who was speaking at an event to promote his latest global warming propaganda documentary – An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power – said the Brexit vote in Britain last summer was the result of “political instability” created by the “stress” caused by climate-change induced chaos in the Middle East.
TEL AVIV – An Israeli biotech company is developing an engineered micro-pancreas (EMP) to safeguard transplanted insulin-producing beta cells and eventually cure diabetes, ISRAEL21c reported. In addition to regulating type 1 diabetes, Betalin Therapeutics’ tissue-engineering invention also has the potential
American medical researchers have just announced the potential end of daily insulin injections for Type 1 diabetes suffers through an innovation that restores insulin production for up to a year.
Fat people are disgusting. And, worse, they’re such babies, always coming up with bullshit excuses about their big bones, hormonal problems, slow metabolisms, the “wrong gut bacteria” or, most sickeningly, their feelings. Sorry, landwhales, but no amount of whinging about your
Blues legend B.B. King is telling fans he’s in hospice care at home in Las Vegas.
As the British public let their belts out a notch to feast on chocolate and eggnog, NHS bosses are calling on doctors to report patients who put on weight. The head of the NHS has said schools, the food industry
