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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 4, 2012 - Overall health conditions in St. Louis and St. Louis County have improved in the past…
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Back in 1995, about 4.5 percent of adults in the U.S. had been diagnosed with diabetes. By 2010, the prevalence had zoomed to 8.2 percent. An interactive map shows how much worse diabetes has become in less than a generation.
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 16, 2012 - Dr. Marshall Alan Permutt, a noted longtime researcher in the fight against diabetes…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 9, 2012 - Frequent exercise, good nutrition and often a single medication have turned out to be…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 14, 2011 - The number of adult Missourians considered obese rose by 512,000 during the past…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 13, 2011 - Lance Martin was born with Type 1 diabetes. As he got older, complications started to…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 24, 2011 - Dr. Marc Hammerman, a Washington University scientist, may be closing in on the day…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 28, 2011 - The year 1986 was a good one for Dr. Camillo Ricordi. For one thing, he got married.…
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Type 2 diabetes – the kind related to obesity and an unhealthy diet – gets a lot of attention these days. But there’s another, less common, form of the…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: Milton and Leona Scott, both in their late 50s, normally don't spend time at the Four Seasons Hotel…