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Take Control of Your Diabetes 23.7 million Americans currently live with diabetes, and that number is expected to nearly double over the next 25 years.  A lot has changed since the early twentieth century, when diabetes was a clear death sentence. An extraordinary discovery in 1921 held out the first hope for treatment – insulin.
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You’re on the market for a new stethoscope, or perhaps, your first. You made an easy decision to go with the industry leader in quality and acoustics – you’re going for a Littmann. Now the only question is which one? With over a dozen acoustic stethoscopes to choose from, the selection can be overwhelming. We’ll
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Is FDNY Gambling with Our Safety

Everyone’s looking for ways to cut costs these days, but the FDNY has taken it a bit too far. According to the NY Daily News, Assistant Chief of EMS John McFarland recently cancelled all tune-ups on the department’s LifePak 12 defibrillators and cardiac monitors and ordered that all expired units are to be kept in
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Do Doctors Need AEDs?

AEDs (Automatic External Defibrillator) have been hitting headlines recently… saving lives when they are available, and prompting lawsuits when they are not. As one of the leading causes of death in the United States, SCA (Sudden Cardiac Arrest) claims more than 310,000 lives every year . The tragedy is that most of these deaths are
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