Iacocca driven to diabetes funding
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On a mission to cure the disease that claimed his wife 21 years ago, business guru Lee Iacocca is urging ordinary Americans to each donate a few bucks to back promising juvenile diabetes research in Boston.
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Scientists at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have induced human insulin-producing cells of the pancreas to revert to islet precursor cells.
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Massachusetts awarded the first loan from its newly created $25 million emerging technology fund to help Acusphere, a Watertown-based biotech company, renovate a Tewksbury building as a manufacturing facility. The granting of the $2 million loan brought Senate President Robert Travaglini, a Boston Democrat, back together with former House Speaker Thomas Finneran, who recently took a job as president of ...
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With the Walk for Diabetes today in Portsmouth, the search for a cure for the more than a million Americans who have Type 1 diabetes comes into focus.
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The Martin government is considering a substantial fund to make it easier for patients to receive treatment outside their home province as Ottawa focuses on reducing
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Jay Agarwal of Concord has donated $250,000 to establish the Elizabeth Smith Agarwal Diabetes Center, which will be part of the Center for Specialty Care that Emerson Hospital is building on Baker Avenue in Concord. Agarwal, whose late wife had been treated for diabetes at Emerson, is a consultant to major corporations on metals, minerals, and energy matters. New bank ...
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Europe's growing diabetes epidemic could   cripple healthcare budgets in coming decades, particularly in   eastern countries, an expert warned on Thursday.
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The problem of Diabetes in our community is worse than first thought. It&#39;s information that was given at a presentation by the CDC, The Mexico Secretary of Health, and the Pan American Health Organization in Downtown El Paso.
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Non-profit groups developing new drugs  and vaccines for neglected tropical diseases urgently need more  than $1 billion in additional funding, according to a report on  Friday.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- A doctor is leading a campaign aimed at requiring insurance companies to fund programs that would help people lose weight with exercise programs and diet counseling.
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The founder of an information technology company and his diabetic wife are giving $44 million to the University of Michigan for creation of a Type 1 diabetes research center.
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News 25&#39;s Sandy Gallant shows how technology and training are helping parents and kids cope with type-1 diabetes in today&#39;s Health Matters.
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A surprise finding in a major federal study calls into question a long-held tenet of diabetes care.
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Less than a third of people with diabetes receive all the recommended tests, a national audit shows.
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A vaccine that could be a cure for type I diabetes is to be tested on people for the first time. British researchers in conjunction with the Diabetes Vaccine Development Centre in Melbourne will conduct the trial from early next year.
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McDonald's Corp., which has been   criticized for marketing calorie- and fat-laden food to   children, said on Wednesday it is partnering with leading   biomedical scientists to fund research and programs aimed at   preventing childhood obesity.
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THE REGION US Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Representative Michael Capuano, Governor Deval Patrick, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, and other state and local officials joined executives and medical staff of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at the formal start of construction of the $250 million, 275,000-square-foot Yawkey Center for Cancer Care in the Longwood Medical Area. Funded with $30 million from the ...