Insulin Injections

Setting L.A. Times stories to song: The week's Column One features

2013-03-16 12:44:08

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Class on parenting becomes a journey through loss, grief and hope

2013-03-14 20:07:00

Roshawne Mackey walked into the Jordan Downs community center clutching a pink pamphlet from a funeral over the weekend, her face like stone. Her niece had been 11 — a diabetic who wasn't given her insulin shots. The dozen or so women in the...

Donny and Marie are pros at this

2012-12-07 18:20:00

Donny and Marie Osmond hit the stage at the Pantages Theatre in a cloud of nearly palpable pizazz. For two hours the indefatigable showbiz veterans, kicking off "A Donny and Marie Christmas in Los Angeles," sang, danced and smiled — oh, did they...

CVS customers say prescription refills weren't OKd

2012-10-09 00:00:00

George Engelke manages his CVS prescriptions online. If he needs more of a medicine, he orders it. If he's going to be away from his Corona del Mar home, he tells the pharmacy where to send the shipment. He's never asked CVS to automatically refill his...

Thomas P. Puccio dies at 67; prosecutor won convictions in Abscam scandal

2012-03-18 00:00:00

Thomas P. Puccio, a former federal prosecutor who won the convictions of several members of Congress in the Abscam bribery scandal in the early 1980s and later became a prominent defense lawyer who secured for socialite Claus von Bulow an acquittal in his...

Twitter's @PeanutFreeMom is 'um, yeah' a dude [Updated]

2011-07-09 16:36:21

Colorado program pairs veterinary students with disabled pet owners to keep animals in their homes

2010-12-29 16:33:48

He's outlived them all. Tarzan. Trigger. Ronald Reagan. Now, retired in Palm Springs, the world's oldest chimp gets some stuff off his chest.

2007-04-22 00:00:00

What can I say--I'm a star. That's why this guy's staring at me, right? I seem familiar, and not just because I did 50 movies, including those classic "Tarzan" flicks of the 1930s. Maybe he saw me on one of the morning shows. Maybe he read about me in...

Still in control

2013-05-17 02:04:01

Joe Gibbs' life has been full of memorable chapters. Two stints as coach of the NFL's Washington Redskins produced three Super Bowl victories. He won three titles as a team owner in what now is NASCAR's premiere Sprint Cup Series. A devout...

MIT-made nanogel may be sweet treatment for diabetes

2013-05-17 00:00:00

A new nanogel developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could be a game-changer for diabetes patients, with the potential to dramatically reduce the frequency of blood-sugar checks and insulin injections, researchers told the Herald. The...

One day it struck her, her weight and health had gone downhill; time for a change

2013-05-09 03:24:04

When the scale spoke back to Pamela Scott two years ago, she didn't like what it said: 326 pounds, way over what her 5 foot 8 frame should be handling. She was visiting her daughter in St. Peters, and her daughter had an accurate scale. She expected she...

Strolling through the finish

2013-04-28 10:44:02

Three-year-old Kaitlyn Kipp was the first person to cross the finish line at the third annual JDRF 5K Run/Walk for the Cure for Diabetes Saturday morning. Funny thing is, she wasn't even entered in the race. Kaitlyn was sitting in a stroller being...

A registered nurse teaches a diabetic patient how to draw her own insulin injections during a house call.

2012-11-20 22:37:07

A registered nurse teaches a diabetic patient how to draw her own insulin injections

2012-07-24 21:38:43

A total of 25.8 million people in the United States -- 8.3% of the U.S. population -- have diabetes. That's a 9% increase over the 2008 estimate.

2011-01-27 14:08:16