Cathy Abramson and Isabel Burger

The Special Diabetes Program: Providing Hope for People With Diabetes

Making a Difference in Tribal Communities Across the Country, by Cathy Abramson...

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November 28, 2012
Byron Dorgan

A Smart Federal Investment

In the coming weeks, we will hear a lot about the budget, the deficit and the need to make hard choices when it comes to federal funding. I agree with that. But the choices also have to be smart choices....

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November 16, 2012

The Gift of Vision: How to Protect It If You Have Diabetes

Neyal J. Ammary-Risch
November 01, 2012
Neyal J. Ammary-Risch (Courtesy NEI) If you had to pick which of your five senses is the most important, would you pick vision?...

Obese Teens at Increased Risk of Gallstones

ICTMN Staff
August 27, 2012
Compared to teens at healthy weights, obese teens are much more like to develop gallstones—hard, pebble-like deposits that form inside the gallbladder ranging from the size of a sa...

National Native AIDS Day Promotes HIV Testing as Infection Rates Are Rising in Indian Country

Anne Minard
March 20, 2012
March 20 marks National Native AIDS Day , set to coincide with the spring equinox ...

Alzheimer's Research Gets $50M Funding Boost

ICTMN Staff
February 08, 2012
Alzheimer's disease research will get an extra $50 million from the National Institutes of Health this year...

The National Library of Medicine's 'Native Voices' Exhibit Shares Native Concepts of Health, Healing and Illness

Maria Scandale
October 30, 2011
Getting Well, Well-Done Oral history and the wisdom of medicine men are recognized in a first-of-its-kind exhibition at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Marylan...

Don’t Lose Sight of Diabetic Eye Disease

ICTMN Staff
October 20, 2011
Courtesy of the National Eye Institute Thousands of American Indian adults are at risk of losing their vision as a result of complications from diabetes All people with diabetes, b...

Creighton to Assess Use of Talking Circles for Diabetes

ICTMN Staff
September 07, 2011
The Creighton University School of Nursing has been awarded a $207,000 two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study diabetes type II among adult members of two tr...

Healing Totem to Begin its Journey September 12

ICTMN Staff
September 05, 2011
On Monday, September 12, at Semiahmoo Park near Blaine, Washington, the Lummi Nation will bless the Healing Totem before it begins its 5,000-mile journey to the National Library of...

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