Drug manufacturers were grilled Wednesday about the skyrocketing price of insulin, which has doubled in the last five years and led some patients to ration the life-saving drug. One study finds the underuse of insulin could affect nearly 40 million people with diabetes by 2030. “Nobody cared
“My doctor told me I had less than a year to live if I wouldn’t let them amputate my leg, but I didn’t let them – here’s how I am still alive now!” When doctors initially told 60-year-old Theresa “Tere” Schaufer that she had diabetes,
Ineffective tissue perfusion is a state in which an individual has a decrease in oxygen resulting in failure to nourish the tissues at the capillary level. Tissue perfusion is a critical parameter for tissue survival and function, and both relative and absolute perfusion assessments are
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