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February
19, 2003 Issue 143  This
week
Over
18 months ago Diabetes in Control reported on the future of Non-Invasive
Glucose Monitoring. Steve
Freed, our publisher,
recently revisited the companies we first reported on and he just completed
an interview with the CEO of the only one of those original companies to be
close to market. Click
here to learn about a possible Fall 2003 approval
2
weeks ago we brought you information on the Potential
Problem with Using Embryonic Stem Cells to Cure Diabetes.
This week Dr Evan Rosen has more information on this in his article A
Setback for Stem Cell Therapy
This
week is your last chance to sign up to participate in the FiberII study.
Click here for more
information.
Preliminary
results are in for the GymII study. The results are comparable to
prescription medications. Click
here to see the numbers.
Check
out this weeks Tools for Your Practice and print out A “Report
Card” to help patients with diabetes better manage their disease.
Leonard
Lipson, M.A., Psychology joins
us starting this week. Leonard will be writing a series of articles on
behavior modification and adherence therapy. His first article The
Mind and Diabetes: Their Many Connections
will be the start of
valuable information for helping your patients.
This
weeks overview:
Item
#1 talks about a breakthrough in preventing neuropathy. Item#3
tells us to make sure we warn our patients about taking ibuprofen. Item
#14 explains just how thin elderly patients are also at risk for
diabetes.
Do
you know what Necrobiosis Lipoidica Diabeticorum
is? Check out this weeks
“Test Your Knowledge” question. Click
Here
Diabetes
in Control is participating in the JDRF
Walk for a Cure in Tampa Bay. If you would like to help
support our team with a donation to JDRF, please email me at editor@diabetesincontrol.com
I
had a chance to interview the AADE’s Diabetes Educator of the Year last
week and will have a report for next week
Dave
Joffe, Editor-in-Chief
News
Flash - News Flash
New
Drug Gives Hope to Patients with Diabetes:
See Item#1
Preliminary
GymII study results show effectiveness comparable to prescription
medications Click
here
1.
New Drug Gives Hope to People With Diabetes*
Click
Here
2.
Young Adults with Insulin treated Diabetes have Elevated
Stroke Risk
Click
Here
3.
Ibuprofen Could Be Bad for Heart Patients WARN YOYR PATIENTS!*
Click
Here
4.
Sugar Key to Memory Problems
Click
Here
5.
Intensive Treatment at Onset of Diagnosis of Diabetes Improves Quality
of Care
Click
Here
6.
Banishing the Beer Belly & Reducing Diabetes Risk
Click
Here
7.
Physician Group Develops Diabetes Management Tools
Click
Here
8.
Animal Fat Intake Associated With Diabetes Risk
Click
Here
9.
Study Causes Debate Over ACE or Water Pills to Treat Blood-pressure*
Click
Here
10.
First Comprehensive Anti-Obesity Legislation
Click
Here
11.
Aspirin Vs. Warfarin After Heart Attack
Click
Here
12.
Synthetic Antioxidants Key to Fighting Diabetes
Click
Here
13.
High-Protein Diet Enhances Weight Loss
Click
Here
14.
Normal Weight Elderly Still At Risk For Developing Diabetes
Click
Here
15.
Oral Insulin Controls Postprandial Plasma Glucose*
Click
Here
Product
Update
Let
your Patients Check Their Own A1c Levels.
It will motivate to better control.
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- High
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- Elevated
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- Diabetes
High
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New Drug Gives Hope to People With Diabetes*
Evan
D.
Rosen,
M.D.,
Ph.D
Check
out Dr.
Bernsteins
Corner for
Insights for
Controlling
Blood Sugars
Shares
her thoughts on a 
Why
Focusing On Intensive Glucose