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November has been Diabetes Awareness Month - but heading into the holidays, people who are diabetic know they can t lose their focus on keeping it in check. And technology is making it easier to monitor the disease from home. More than 520,000 Washingtonians have been diagnosed with diabetes. .
As World AIDS Day turns 35, the mother of an Indiana teen who became the public face of the disease is a reminder of the importance of never forgetting the hard work of medical researchers and the victims lost in the frenzy to find a cure. More than 40 million people have died from AIDS, including Ryan White, who grew up in central Indiana at a time when not much was known about it and medicine offered few treatments. Ryan contracted the disease during a blood transfusion at age 13. .
Nurses who care for patients in their homes in central Oregon are pushing to get their union contract negotiations across the finish line. Home health and hospice care workers at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart in the Eugene area have been in a long struggle to complete negotiations. The nurses contract expired in April. .
Advocates for affordable health care are speaking out to remind people what is at stake if the Affordable Care Act is repealed in the wake of recent statements by former President Donald Trump. Mr. Trump, who leads the polls for the 2024 Republican nomination, has recently said he is looking at alternatives to the Affordable Care Act, and criticized the GOP lawmakers who voted against his attempts to end the program in 2017. .