Let your mind wander through this whimsical story and ask yourself—what would you catch?
Take trips around town and to Broadway with Bambina and Mama Bee and catch the buzz of Busy Bees!
When Santa and Baby Santa get together, nothing can get in the way of making sure that every boy and girl has a very merry Christmas!
The Great Katie Kate is the first book series designed to help kids and families understand their condition and overcome their fears.
Mislabeled packaging could lead to patients receiving ibuprofen tablets instead of oxcarbazepine intended for treating seizures in patients with epilepsy. American Health Packaging (AHP) has issued a voluntary recall on Ibuprofen and Oxcarbazepine tablets that may have been mislabeled.
Learn more about the recall from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s website.
Each summer, the American Diabetes Association’s Camp Sugar Falls provides children with diabetes in the mid-Tennessee area a special place to play, laugh, share and learn about diabetes management. Camp Sugar Falls is a day-camp experience for children ages 6 to 12 that have been diagnosed with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. The camp offers an exciting week of recreational and educational activities that focus on nutrition, lifestyle habits, self-esteem and team building.
This year Camp Sugar Falls was honored to have Dr. Maitland DeLand in attendance. Dr. DeLand spoke to the campers about how they are all heroes and should be proud of their great accomplishments.
Experts at the American Diabetes Association are advising a lower blood sugar target for children and teens with type 1 diabetes.
According to the ADA, patients younger than age 19 should try to maintain an A1C blood sugar level lower than 7.5 percent, the group said in a new position statement.
A1C is a test that determines average blood sugar (glucose) levels over several months.
Childhood exposure to allergens and germs is generally believed to protect against the development of asthma and allergy, but a new study suggests that this effect happens only with exposure in the first year of life.
A new children’s book, written by Maitland DeLand, M.D., beautifully illustrates the positive actions children can take when they have a relative with type 1 diabetes.
Be a Hero! Help Prevent Diabetes with The Great Katie Kate introduces readers to a young super heroine named Katie Kate. She, in turn, guides them through a TrialNet screening and explains its importance to type 1 diabetes research and families like their own. The story takes place at a diabetes day camp, where children with diabetes, as well as sisters and brothers without diabetes, attend together.
Read more at DiabetesTrialNet: https://www.diabetestrialnet.org/news/katiekate/index.htm
ROCHESTER, Minn. — May 14, 2014 — In a proof of principle clinical trial, Mayo Clinic researchers have demonstrated that virotherapy — destroying cancer with a virus that infects and kills cancer cells but spares normal tissues — can be effective against the deadly cancer multiple myeloma. The findings appear in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Read more at Mayo Clinic