Tag: diabetes
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Managing diabetes to reduce risk of stroke
November is diabetes awareness month and Hamilton Health Sciences’ (HHS) Stroke Prevention Clinic and Diabetes Care and Research Program have...
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Diabetes study finds a wealth of information at your fingertips
Despite being separate health conditions, diabetes and heart disease are strongly connected. According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, people...
![Hamilton Health Sciences vascular surgeon Dr. Fadi Elias is helping to lead a new campaign called Socks Off, aimed at reducing the number of lower Hamilton residents who lose a foot to amputation due to diabetes and/or vascular disease.](https://www.hamiltonhealthsciences.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Socks-Off-Campaign-Dr.-Fadi-Elias-HGH-23.06.21-Web-Size-005-1.jpg)
Socks Off! campaign starts July 17 to reduce diabetes-related foot amputations in lower Hamilton
HAMILTON, ON – Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) together with the Greater Hamilton Health Network (GHHN) will be launching a Socks...
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‘Dia-besties’ manage their type 1 diabetes together
Like most kindergarten kids, classmates Julia and Ainsley were learning their ABCs and 123s. But the five-year-old girls were also...
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Study finds that South Asian individuals have high genetic risk of gestational diabetes
Hamilton researchers have found that genetic factors are strongly associated with the development of gestational diabetes among people of South...
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Storyteller shares H2H health journey
Andy Stocks made his living painting houses. But storytelling has always taken centre stage for the 77-year-old writer, actor and...
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