Being Healthy Now Matters Later to Moms and Babies
November 2, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Pamela K. Xaverius reflects on her poster presentation at the American Public Health Association annual meeting.
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Faces of Public Health: Dr. John Buse
January 25, 2012 | New Public Health Post
John Buse, MD, PhD, director of the Diabetes Care Center and chief of the Division of Endocrinology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, was just recently named the new chair of the National Diabetes Education Progr ...
Diabetes Also Takes an Economic Toll
January 12, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A new study in the journal Health Affairs has found that young people with diabetes are more likely to drop out of high school and could expect to earn about $160,000 less than those without diabetes over their lifetimes. That’s on top of medical ex ...
Human Capital News Roundup: Life expectancy, the aging brain, diabetes prevention, and more.
September 27, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Life expectancy, the aging brain, diabetes prevention, and more.
Human Capital News Roundup: Allergies in kids, diabetes among the elderly, debate teams, and more.
June 14, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees. Some recent examples: A study by RWJF Physician Faculty Scholar Resh ...
Preventing and Managing Diabetes: "It's Not Easy But It's Worth It"
November 7, 2011 | New Public Health Post
“It’s not easy but it’s worth it,” is the very important message from the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), a partnership between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. The Partnership is prom ...
Living in a Sugar Nation: Can We Win the Battle Against a Silent Killer?
October 25, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
The rampant rate of type 2 diabetes is taking a toll on our health care system. O’Connell notes that the “U.S. diabetes tab for only direct medical expenditures comes to nearly $120 billion a year. Throw in lost productivity—$58 billion worth of mis ...
Human Capital News Roundup: Rationing end-of-life care, nursing joint degree programs, diabetes diagnoses, and more.
October 18, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of RWJ) leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees.