diabetes care

Back to School with Diabetes

Armen Hareyan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:12:17 -0500

Back to school can be stressful for everyone, but for children living with diabetes, preparing to go back to school is much more complicated. It often involves parents, teachers, administration, school nurses, cafeteria staff and coaches teaming up to ensure the child remains healthy.

Hospital Diabetes Care Standards Not Met by U.S. Academic Medical Centers

harminka — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:40:11 -0600

A benchmarking study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine evaluated contemporary hospital glycemic management in United States academic medical centers, determining glucose control practices are suboptimal and do not meet current American Diabetes Association (ADA) hospital diabetes care standards.

FDA Warning: Recall of Mislabeled ReliOn Insulin Syringes

Armen Hareyan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:07:20 -0600

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is notifying health care professionals and patients that Tyco Healthcare Group LP (Covidien) is recalling one lot of ReliOn sterile, single-use, disposable, hypodermic syringes with permanently affixed hypodermic needles due to possible mislabeling.

Restricting insulin doses increases mortality risk

harminka — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:06:57 -0600

A new study led by researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center has found that women with type 1 diabetes who reported taking less insulin than prescribed had a three-fold increased risk of death and higher rates of disease complications than those who did not skip needed insulin shots. The new research appears in the March issue of Diabetes Care.

Team-based approach improves diabetes care

harminka — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:26:24 -0600

Due to the success of the first three years of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the American College of Physicians Foundation (ACPF) Diabetes Initiative, the program has received additional funding from Novo Nordisk Inc. to continue the initiative for an additional two years through December 2009.

For some diabetics, burden of care rivals complications of disease

harminka — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:51:18 -0500

Many patients with diabetes say that the inconvenience and discomfort of constant therapeutic vigilance, particularly multiple daily insulin injections, has as much impact on their quality of life as the burden of intermediate complications, researchers from the University of Chicago report in the October 2007 issue of Diabetes Care.

Older blacks and Latinos lag whites in controlling diabetes

harminka — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:30:05 -0500

Despite decades of advances in diabetes care, African Americans and Latinos are still far less likely than whites to have their blood sugar under control, even with the help of medications, a new nationally representative study finds. That puts them at a much higher risk of blindness, heart attack, kidney failure, foot amputation and other long-term diabetes complications.

Sugar coated proteins seal in memory of diabetes

harminka — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:00:02 -0500

Researchers at the University of Warwick’s Warwick Medical School have uncovered a process that locks the body’s metabolism in a diabetic state after only relatively limited exposure to high glucose levels.

Identifying gaps in diabetes care, better self care

harminka — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:03:13 -0500

A symposium, sponsored by the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) in collaboration with the American Diabetes Association, the American Association of Diabetes Educators, Joslin Diabetes Center and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing identified barriers to, and strategies for, more effective diabetes self management and reaffirmed the nurse's critical role to facilitate better patient self care. These results are published in a special supplement to the June issue of AJN.

Diabetes care improves after UK reforms of general practice

harminka — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:40:15 -0500

Research published in PLoS Medicine examines the impact of the UK government's new contract with general practitioners (family doctors) on the care of people with diabetes. The research, conducted in Wandsworth in London, found that improvements had occurred, but black people of Caribbean origin were not benefiting to the extent of other ethnic groups.

Quality improvement effort pays off in diabetes care

harminka — Fri, 18 May 2007 11:51:15 -0500

Spending money to improve diabetes care at federally qualified community health centers is a sound investment, according to one of the first studies to examine the clinical and economic impact of quality improvement on diabetes care.

Step forward for islet transplantation in diabetes patient

harminka — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:29:37 -0500

Living Cell Technologies Limited (ASX: LCT) today announced it has published evidence outlining the survival and identification of live porcine islet cells and insulin production in a human patient 10 years after receiving a pig islet cell transplant.