Pregnancy diabetes care attacked
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A report attacks the quality of pre-conception services offered by the NHS to women with diabetes.
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BusinessWeek Online - The news last week that GlaxoSmithKline&#39;s  popular diabetes drug Avandia may increase the risk of heart attacks is now causing a rift among doctors by specialty, leading to charges by each side that the other is endangering patients. Endocrinologists, who treat diabetics, tend to regard the data, which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, with skepticism, pointing to weaknesses in the study, particularly when compared to more rigorous clinical trials. Cardiologists and drug safety experts, foremost among them study author Dr. ...
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A study finds that a motherâs gestational diabetes is significantly associated with obesity in her children at ages 5 to 7.
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A firm providing phone and TV services to hospital patients has been accused of pressurising vulnerable people.
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The American Diabetes Association is rethinking how it raises money from companies that sell foods that are high in calories.
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The treatment of Type 2 diabetes must place more emphasis on tackling potentially fatal complications  experts have warned.
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A new, large study suggests that treating women who develop diabetes during pregnancy greatly reduces the chances that their baby will become obese during childhood.
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Obese pregnant women may have  an increased risk of losing their baby relatively late in  pregnancy, and black women appear particularly at risk, a large  study suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes who maintain good control of their blood sugar levels during the second trimester are at decreased risk for developing preeclampsia, a potentially serious pregnancy complication involving high blood pressure and fluid retention, according to a report in the journal BJOG.
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Obese mothers-to-be need significantly more NHS care than pregnant women of a healthy weight, a study says.
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Women who took epilepsy medication while pregnant are suing for damages claiming the drug harmed their children.
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TORONTO -- Post-partum depression clinics, breastfeeding clinics and other vital women&#39;s health services are on the chopping block as the province demands that hospitals balance their budgets next year, advocates warned yesterday.
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Pregnant women who smoke face a higher risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy -- a condition known as gestational diabetes -- according to a new study.
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NEW YORK  - Women with type 1 diabetes who  monitor their blood glucose daily both before and during  pregnancy have better outcomes, Danish researchers report.
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A drug commonly used to control diabetes increases the risk of heart attacks and possibly death, researchers reported yesterday in the latest episode to raise safety concerns about a widely prescribed drug.
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NEW YORK  - Pregnant women suffer injuries requiring hospitalization more often than previously thought, a new nationwide study shows.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc fired another salvo in defense of diabetes treatment Avandia on Tuesday by taking out full-page advertisements in at least a dozen major U.S. newspapers in an attempt to reassure patients of the safety of the widely used medicine.