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Access to Diabetes Care: World Diabetes Day 2023

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World Diabetes Day focuses on access to healthcare for diabetics around the world.

Accessing healthcare should be a fundamental human right. However, this isn’t the case for millions of diabetes patients globally. Aiming to overcome the barriers in diabetes healthcare, World Diabetes Day 2023 focuses on the theme ‘Access to Diabetes Care’. Diabetes is a chronic disease that causes health complications and economic hardship, and yet type 2 diabetes is easily managed or […]

Improving the management of heart failure with telemedicine

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Guaranteeing timely and good quality healthcare for all can be challenging. In countries like Denmark or Brazil, where health administration is fragmented, with federal authorities managing hospitals while municipalities manage primary care, the management of patients is very complicated. After developing a cross-sector collaboration model in Denmark, Dr Helena Dominguez, cardiologist in Bispebjerg-Frederiksberg Hospital and Associate Professor at the University […]