diabetes
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The thing about type 2 diabetes is that it can really sneak up one you. - Over the past several years, cold-pressed juices and smoothies made with fresh fruits and vegetables have become increasingly popular; juice and smoothie bars are a $2 billion industry, according to market research company IBISWorld, and juice bars and juice-making companies are popping up across Baltimore.
- The Maryland Healthy Vending Act will make healthier choices more widely available. If the Maryland General Assembly passes this bill, 75 percent of food and drinks offered in state-operated vending machines will meet national nutrition standards — making decidedly healthier choices more available.
- As the population of Howard County has grown, so have the health-care resources available to residents.
- A Baltimore healthcare technology company that has developed an app to manage diabetes said Tuesday it has raised more than $29 million in a series B financing round, with an investment by Johnson & Johnson.
- The Abell Foundation announced Tuesday that it's invested $250,000 in Vasoptic Medical Inc., a Baltimore-based firm that's developing a portable retinal imager to make it easier to monitor diseases of the eye and the effects of diabetes on the eye.
- Carroll County Health Department, dental clinic
- Mayoral candidate Nick Mosby and the Baltimore City Department of Health have proposed legislation to require restaurants, grocery stores, convenience stores and vending machines to carry misleading and inaccurate warning signs about common beverages such as lemonades, sweet teas, fruit juices, fruit drinks, sports drinks and soft drinks designed to scare consumers.
- Baltimore should be more focused on promoting retailers than placing more regulatory burdens on them
- It's too early to judge the value of requiring businesses to post warning about the adverse health effects of sugary drinks.
- Amid an epidemic of obesity among children, Baltimore officials want to warn consumers away from sugary drinks sold in the city.
- The Horizon Foundation is a partner in Sugar Free Kids Maryland, a statewide coalition established in 2014 to combat childhood obesity and teenage diabetes, which announced its proposal for the Maryland Healthy Vending Act, which would restrict what can be sold in vending machines, for the 2016 General Assembly session.
- Our kids are being poisoned every day in their schools. It's not from lead paint or pipes, but by the food and drinks being served to them. It is the cheapest to make and deadliest to eat and, in some instances, the same food fed to the inmate populations in our state prisons.
- About 100 volunteers and guests gathered at Carroll Post 31 American Legion for the Live, Hope, Laugh Night of Giving Dec. 22.
- University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers are studying a rare form of diabetes that runs in families and caused by the mutation of a single gene
- WellDoc, a Baltimore health information technology firm, raised $22 million from a second round of venture capital investment to commercialize its diabetes management application.
- Future of health care depends on family doctors providing a multitude of services
- On Wednesday, Dec. 2, Lauren Hickey was honored with the 2015 Sylvia Canon Humanitarian Award for her work with seniors, an annual award of the Carroll County Community Services Council that recognizes a person who has contributed to improving human services organizations in Carroll.
- In caring for obesity, telling a person to just eat less and exercise more is not enough. Physicians have to understand and address the whole person and everything around him or her.
- The 15 women who completed the inaugural nine-month program ¿ the first of its kind, according to ADA regional director Kathy Rogers ¿ lost as much as 28 pounds and saw significant improvements in their blood sugar levels. Their accomplishments are being celebrated Thursday at a luncheon at Horseshoe Casino, and, given its preliminary success, Fabulous You is likely to be replicated nationally, Rogers said.
- Rep. Donna Edwards has for weeks criticized her opponent in Maryland¿s Senate race for a fundraiser hosted by a former Wall Street lobbyist, arguing the event underscores Rep. Chris Van Hollen¿s relationship with the financial sector. The Van Hollen campaign counters that the former lobbyist, Douglas Lowenstein, and the other hosts of the fundraiser, are involved with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The event, the Van Hollen camp says, was intended to support the congressman¿s efforts on that disease.
- If you've been putting off or unable to get a basic health check up at a doctor, the Finksburg Pharmacy will make things easy for you: From 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, Oct. 6, the pharmacy will host free health screenings for blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and obesity.
- Carroll Hospital wants to get the topic of type 1 diabetes off the backburner with its free, Sept. 26 event, Stand Up To Type 1 Diabetes
- Ellicott City native Kavita Shukla's business started with a trip to India and a middle school science project. Her company Fenugreen now makes an anti-microbial paper that keeps fruits and vegetables fresh longer.
- Dunkin' Donuts of Greater Baltimore announced its fifth annual Community Hero Award winners and one of the recipients is from Ellicott City. Paige Kennedy was named one of the 10 outstanding heroes who are making a difference their communities.
- Type 1 diabetes, sometimes called "juvenile diabetes" doesn't always get attention of Type 2 diabetes, but Carroll Hospital aims to change that with the Stand Up to Type 1 Diabetes: It's about time
- Johns Hopkins Hospital tied with UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles as the nation's third best hospitals in the latest ranking from U.S. News and World Report, a widely watched annual assessment that for years called Hopkins No. 1.
- We have a long way to go before we achieve health care equity in Baltimore. We can take a big step forward by investing in solutions to address the critical issue of food access. Let's work together to level the playing field so that all of our citizens can have the opportunity to live long and healthy lives.
- Several Maryland-based federal employees have been named as finalists for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal, an awards program sponsored by the Partnership for Public Service.
- Simple tests already used regularly to assess kidney function and damage could also help doctors predict who will suffer heart disease, researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found.
- May is National High Blood Pressure Education Month. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in three – or 67 million --- American adults suffer from high blood pressure. But even though hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a somewhat common malady, it is rarely given the attention it deserves by the general public.
- People packed the Howard County Council's Ellicott City chambers Monday night to testify on a bill that would create nutritional standards for food and drink sold on county property, in a hearing that was reminiscent of another held almost a year ago.
- Columnist: 'Seniors on the Go' Expo, set for April 8 at Ag Center, a pilgrimage destination
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- Maryland state senator has become an obstacle in the path to reducing childhood obesity
- March is National Kidney Month
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- More food choices make for happier and healthier residents
