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Spring 2007

Know Your Risk:
Diabetes and the Autoimmune Link

Type 1 puts you at greater risk for two autoimmune disorders More >>

Fitness & Exercise:
Make a Workout of Household Chores

Here’s how you can get the activity you need while getting your errands done More >>

New Hope for Type-2 Diabetes
A new treatment for type-2 diabetes was approved recently by the Food and Drug Administration. The new drug, Januvia, is the first in a new class of drugs called DPP-4 inhibitors that help control high blood sugar by regulating insulin production. More >>

Diabetes Dictionary:
Body Mass Index (BMI)

Body Mass Index (BMI) measures your body weight relative to your height. More >>

In the News:
No More Finger Pricks?

Research participants are needed to test new non-invasive blood glucose monitoring device More >>

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Lehigh Valley Hospital has campuses in Allentown and Bethlehem, Pa. and serves the Pennsylvania communities of Easton, Doylestown, Quakertown, Hazelton, Lehighton, Perkasie, Pottstown, Pottsville, Reading, Scranton, Wilkes Barre, Stroudsburg, and the Poconos and also Phillipsburg and Flemington, N.J., and western New Jersey. You don't have to travel to Philadelphia or New York for quality health care.

 
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