What do you mean, diabetes?' - The moment that changed a life

Vincent Schilling
August 06, 2008
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Mitchell Bush, Onondaga/Mohawk, was diagnosed with diabetes in 1986 but wasn't told by his doctor until five years later... Read more

May I suggest ...

Sararesa Hopkins
August 06, 2008
Carolyn Smith-Morris, a medical anthropologist and assistant professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist University, provides an academic, outsider's point of view in ''Diabete... Read more

Prevention efforts promoted for Native kids

Rob Capriccioso
August 06, 2008
WASHINGTON - The diabetes epidemic in Indian country continues, but officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its partners are not sitting still... Read more

Diamondbacks host 1,000 Native youth athletes

Rebecca Jacobs
August 06, 2008
PHOENIX - Host to nearly 1,000 Native youth baseball and softball players and coaches, their families and friends, the Arizona Diamondbacks Inter-Tribal Youth Baseball Tournament a... Read more

Reservation life good for tribal elder with diabetes - Catherine LaPointe defies disease

Brenda Austin
August 06, 2008
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. - Catherine LaPointe has diabetes. According to the U.S... Read more

Special Diabetes Program for Indians reauthorized

Rob Capriccioso
August 06, 2008
WASHINGTON - Indian health officials are hailing Congress; July 15 vote to extend the Special Diabetes Program for Indians through September 2011 at a level of $150 million... Read more

Childhood diabetes - A young person speaks about her experience with the disease

Carol Berry
August 06, 2008
DENVER - A person with diabetes usually develops it in adulthood, when - devastating as the disease's onset may be - he or she can understand what is happening... Read more

New diagnostic technology could help diabetics

Gale Courey Toensing
August 06, 2008
IRVINE, Calif... Read more

State awaits federal action on tribal casino

August 06, 2008
Gov. Deval Patrick yesterday praised the state's relationship with the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, but said no negotiations had begun over a compact for an Indian casino. Read more

Washington in brief

Jerry Reynolds
August 06, 2008
Rahal-Grijalva-Dicks bid to put out wildfires passes House Only days before a lightning strike in Washington state started the kind of reservation-endangering wildfire the ''FLAME'... Read more

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