Paula Deen announces she has diabetes, will continue to cook with pounds of butter

Popular TV chef/restauranteur Paula Deen is under fire following her announcement that she has diabetes — and has signed a deal to promote a diabetes drug. Read more

Rotating shifts may increase risk of Type 2 diabetes, study says

New research shows working rotating shifts could have serious consequences for nurses’ health.  Read more

Congress calls for probe after insulin pump gets hacked

Here’s an IT security threat you probably never imagined you’d have to plan for: Hacked insulin pumps. Read more

The scary truth about two common drugs

A potentially dangerous side effect of two commonly prescribed drugs was just uncovered — and the way it was found is just as interesting as the actual side effect. Read more

You won’t believe what they can transplant now

In an effort to battle C. difficile infections, some doctors are transplanting poop into patients.  Read more

Are you making your patients fatter?

Could doctors, nurses and other health professionals be partly to blame for their patients’ increasingly large size? At least one M.D. thinks so. Read more

CDC report: Surprising info on who’s really uninsured

The commonly held view that most of the uninsured are living in poverty doesn’t jibe with the latest research from the Centers for Disease Control. Read more

Should you pay patients to take their pills?

A controversial idea is gaining ground in medicine: Paying non-compliant patients to take their meds. Read more

Med students used single-use needle on multiple patients

It doesn’t seem as if you need to be highly trained to know that re-using a single-use blood testing device is a bad idea. But these students thought it was A-Ok. Read more

Do your worst-case-scenario plans go far enough?

Could your hospital keep running in the most dire of circumstances, such as 10 feet of floodwater in your city? Several lawsuits are claiming it should. Read more

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