Heart Disease in Women: Ladies, Love Your Heart All Year Long

By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Featured in USATODAY.com | Grand Rounds – Health Tips American Heart Month may be officially over, but don’t let the lack of media attention fool you into thinking heart disease isn’t a critical issue. We still need to be mindful of the fact that heart disease is the number one killer of women. There are simple lifestyle choices you can make to help prevent you from heart disease. I…

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Speaking Diabetes: A Guide from an Insider

Guest post by Miriam E. Tucker Just as physicians use abbreviations and terminology that sound like a foreign language to outsiders, patients who talk to each other on the Internet (and elsewhere) have developed their own quirky code words and phrases. Here’s some of the lingo used by those with diabetes: D-anything – Placing a “d” in front of any word makes it uniquely diabetically ours. One prominent example is DLife, the weekly CNBC television…

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A Patient’s Story: Contagious Confidence, Endless Possibilities

In a recent post on Healthin30 I wrote why patients are the most important part of the medical team, and my colleagues, Elizabeth Cohen, Kevin Pho, MD, Donna Cryer, JD, and Carl R. Sullivan, MD, shared their insights as well. Today, Ginger Vieira, a patient, living with Type 1 diabetes and Celiac disease for 12 years says, “You, as the patient, are the most important part of the medical team because you are the one…

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H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Questions Continue: Should you get it if you have asthma, cancer or diabetes?

By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Our Healthin30.com readers continue to have questions and concerns regarding the H1N1 swine flu vaccine. Our medical expert, Bruce B. Dan, MD, infectious disease specialist, addresses our readers questions and concerns regarding the H1N1 swine flu vaccine. Healthin30 Reader Ms.Parker writes: “I am a 21yr old female and I have only seasonal asthma that comes along with my spring allergies. I have a few questions regarding the H1N1 vaccine….

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