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Safe at School Workshop to be hosted at University of Florida on Sunday, Aug. 21
The American Diabetes Association is hosting a Safe at School workshop for parents of children with diabetes, at the University of Florida on Sunday, August 21. Parents will learn about their child’s rights at school, and how they can be a partner with their schools and their child’s advocate. Keeping…
Normal Weight May Not Protect Against Diabetes
Repost from: U.S. News written by Serena Gordon. Type 2 diabetes has long been considered a disease of the overweight and obese, but a new study challenges that notion. It finds nearly one in five normal-weight people has prediabetes — a condition that can lead to type 2 diabetes. …
Surprising Physical Activity Benefits of PokémonGO
Image: Forbes Ready… set… PokémonGO! Since its release date of July 6, 2016, the free downloadable app PokémonGO has taken the nation by storm. Using your smartphone, you get to transport between the real world and virtual world of PokémonGO. Step outside into fresh air and begin your journey of…
ICHP Faculty Awarded Pilot Grant to Develop Diabetes Mentoring Program for Youth
Reposted from the Institute for Child Health Policy. Ashby Walker and Desmond Schatz are faculty affiliated with both the UF Diabetes Institute and Institute for Child Health Policy. While low socioeconomic status is known to negatively affect children with Type 1 Diabetes, little is known about the underlying causes…
UF Diabetes Institute researchers to study genetic variations and autoimmune response in type 1 diabetes with 5-year NIH grant
Story at a glance: In February, UF Diabetes Institute researchers received a $1.25 million grant from the NIH to study how specific genetic variation impacts the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes. Researchers hope to identify therapeutic targets on white blood cells capable of blocking inflammatory signals to stop the destruction…
Pioglitazone Is Safe and Effective Option For Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and NASH
Many patients with prediabetes or Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) are not diagnosed with Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a disease that is the second cause of liver transplantation in the United States.
ADA’s Safe at School campaign making progress
In this video exclusive, Anastasia Albanese-O’Neill, PhD, ARNP, CDE, assistant professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Florida Health, discusses the American Diabetes Association’s Safe at School campaign that began in 2004 to ensure that all children with type 1 diabetes are medically safe at school.
New CDC Reports Show Obesity Rates Continue to Climb: How Can We Make it Stop
University of Florida obesity and nutrition researcher Dr. Michelle Cardel explores the CDC’s new obesity reports and what we can do about them.