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Learning
how to prevent diabetes, or taking maximum control once it is diagnosed,
was the focus of
Saint
Anne's Hospital’s ninth annual
“Decoding
Diabetes” health fair held on June 23, 2011 at the Venus de Milo
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(Top row, left) Prudence Lo of Medtronic talks with one of the conference attendees. (Top row, center) Pat Bebo of the University of Massachusetts Extension Nutrition Education Program and Chef Bill Walker of Durfee High School display the salt content of some common foods labeled in Portuguese. (Top row, right) John King of Dighton talks with Colleen McCarthy LaPierre of Lifescan One Touch glucose meters. (Middle row, left) Kathy Ferreira of Swansea and Doris Bento of Fall River talk with a representative of the Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library. (Middle row, center) Diabetes Association staff member John Quintas speaks with Rose Marie Couto, R.N., C.D.E., Diabetes Nurse Educator for Saint Anne's Hospital. (Middle row, right) Kristen Gunderson, Youth & Families Outreach Coordinator for the Diabetes Association, visits the healthy snack table. (Bottom row, left) Paul Andrade of Westport tries administering the new Hands-Only CPR to a dummy as his wife, Alberta, ad American Heart Association representative Michelle Karn look on. (Bottom row, center) Alison Vinciquerra of Eli Lilly talks with Sister Carole Marie Mello, OP, director of Spiritual Care at Saint Anne's Hospital. (Bottom row, right) Frank Baptista of Voz do Emigrante/WHTB 1400 AM broadcasts several of the educational programs live in Portuguese from the health fair. |
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