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January 8, 2010

Sinai Hospital opens diabetes center

Baltimore's Sinai Hospital recently opened a center designed to teach patients with diabetes how to manage their disease and improve their lifestyle with advice and support.

With glucose monitoring instruction, nutritional counseling and insulin and medication training, the Diabetes Resource Center offers people one-on-one time with doctors, nurses and specialists to discuss their condition and create a treatment plan. It also offers group session for continued support.

With some 18 million people nationwide struggling with diabetes -- nearly 360,000 of them in Maryland alone -- the needs for support are huge. Many more are living with diabetes and have not been diagnosed.

For more information about the center, call 410-601-WELL

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Meredith Cohn has been a reporter since 1991, covering everything from politics and airlines to the environment and medicine. A runner since junior high and a particular eater for almost as long, she tries to keep up on health and fitness trends. Her aim is to bring you the latest news and information from the local and national medical and wellness communities.

Andrea K. Walker knows it’s weird to some people, but she has a fascination with fitness, diseases, medicine and other health-related topics. She subscribes to a variety of health and fitness magazines and becomes easily engrossed in the latest research in health and science. An exercise fanatic, she’s probably tried just about every fitness activity there is. Her favorites are running, yoga and kickboxing. So it is probably fitting that she has been assigned to cover the business of healthcare and to become a regular contributor to this blog. Andrea has been at The Sun for nearly 10 years, covering manufacturing, retail , airlines and small and minority business. She looks forward to telling readers about the latest health news.

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