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VOL. 35 | NO. 25 | Friday, June 24, 2011
Nashville Area
Nashville group gets grant to fight diabetes
NASHVILLE (AP) — United Neighborhood Health Services in Nashville has received a $300,000 grant to fight diabetes.
According to The Tennessean newspaper, it is one of five recipients in the country to get such a grant.
The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation awarded the money to help black women with Type 2 diabetes manage the disease. Type 2 is the more common kind of the disease, also called adult-onset diabetes.
The health services group will use the money over two years to implement a self-management program that includes physical activity and access to resources.