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July
30, 2003 Issue 166
This
Week...
Exciting News:
Diabetes in Control has just been issued exclusive licensure
to the “First Step Program”
in the United States. We recently began to develop a program
for patients to increase their physical activity, based
on our successful step study. This is when we discovered
the “First Step Program”.
The program developed by the Canadian
Centre for Activity and Aging and Dr. Catrine
Tudor-Locke, was presented at ADA Scientific Sessions
in New Orleans and is in use at more than 17 diabetes centers
in Canada. The program is unique in that it can be made
part of a total education program or a stand alone exercise
program. In addition it has 2 distinct phases, adoption
of a gradually increased physical activity level, and adherence
to this new activity level.
The program will be presented at our booth (#1333)
at AADE and then it will be available on at www.FirstStepProgram.com
Did you know that frequently double vision in diabetes
patients is not caused by acute high glucose levels, Paul
Chous, M.A.,Doctor of Optometry and Type 1 diabetic
since 1968, examines this and other problems in Diabetic
Eye Disease: Eye Muscle Dysfunction
We have been getting a lot of requests for information
about Anodyne® Therapy. The most often asked question
is about research. I have worked with the company to put
together a Research Update for you.
Anodyne®
Therapy Research Update. Also if you are in
Salt Lake City, stop by and learn more.
With only 1 week to go until AADE we want to remind you
that we will be in at Booth #1333, between Roche, Aventis
and Takeda. Please stop by to see our special presentations.
We are also having a STEP Contest, Stop by our booth before
Thursday noon and pick up your free pedometer and then lets
see who gets the most steps for the next 3 day – 10
prizes awarded to the top finishers. Click
here to find out more and what else is Happenings
If you missed the controversial feature Diabetes
Diet War, check it out. Dr. Richard Bernstein and
others were recently interviewed for U.S. News & World
Report on the current controversy of low carb diets. Check
it out “DIABETES
DIET WAR”
Eating out gets easier every week if you give your patients
a copy of our favorite “fast foods”
list. This week Boston
Market and Chic-Fil-A
This week’s overview:
Item#6: High Cholesterol
Linked With Risk of Kidney Problems in Healthy Men
Item:#13: Glucosamine
Supplementation Does Not Impair Glucose Control
Item #15: Teens With
Type 1 Diabetes Benefit From Metformin
Check out this weeks “Test Your Knowledge”
question. Click Here
Dave
Joffe, Editor-in-Chief, CDE, FACA
Consider
making Diabetes in Control Your home page.
NewsFlash:
Possible New Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes*
See Item#1
Due to the overwhelming response
to our information on Diachrome (chromium picolinate and biotin)
we have convinced the manufacturer “Nutrition 21”
to supply you, our medical professional readers, with samples
for personal or patient use.
Click
here to learn how to get them.
1. Possible New Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes*
Click Here
2. Quantity Not Quality of Food, Linked to Obesity
Click Here
3. LANDMARK STUDY FINDS ADULTS FAIL TO GET RECOMMENDED CARE*
Click Here
4. Glimepiride (Amaryl® ) Provides Glycemic Control
and Weight Loss in Type 2’s
Click Here
5. Acarbose Cuts Risk of Hypertension and CVD For Patients
with Impaired Glucose Tolerance
Click Here
6. High Cholesterol Linked With Risk of Kidney Problems
in Healthy Men
Click Here
7. Systolic BP Predicts Diabetic Nephropathy Progression
Click Here
8. ACE Inhibitors Prevent Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease*
Click Here
9 Randomized Trial Demonstrates Benefits of Lifestyle Modification
in Type 2 Diabetes
Click Here
10. New Discovery May Unravel the Holy Grail of Obesity*
Click Here
11. Repaglinide - Metformin Combo Is Safe and Effective
for Type 2’s
Click Here
12. DHEA Use Enhances Endothelial Function and Insulin Sensitivity
in Men
Click Here
13. Glucosamine Supplementation Does Not Impair Glucose
Control
Click Here
14. Insurers To Reward Patients for Losing Weight. &
Exercising
Click Here
15. Teens With Type 1 Diabetes Benefit From Metformin
Click Here
Product
Update
 A1cNow
is Now Over the Counter-No Prescription Needed!
Let
your Patients Check Their Own A1c Levels. It will motivate
to better control.
www.a1cnow.net
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“A
pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Sir Winston Churchill
Prescription
Drug Plan Faces Tests
Insurers' Participation Uncertain, Experts
Say
Congress's dramatic pre-dawn votes
on Friday to add prescription drug benefits to Medicare
were a political milestone, authorizing the biggest
expansion of the program since its birth. But health
policy analysts say that, even if the House and the
Senate are able to resolve differences between their
bills, it is far from certain the plan would work.
The drug coverage envisioned by Congress and the White
House relies on two kinds of private insurance methods:
separate policies solely for drugs, something that
does not currently exist, and preferred-provider networks,
a health plan that is common among younger people
but includes few Medicare patients. Read
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Possible
New Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes* 
Brings
us information on how to reduce malpractice in his feature
Communication: 
DIABETES
SOLUTION: REVISED AND UPDATED 
Management
of Hypertension in Diabetes, a free one-hour CE. 
Brings
use part 5 of his series 
Melissa
Diane Smith
Paul
Chous, 
Evan
D. Rosen, M.D., Ph.D 
The goal of this educational activity is to address the
important role of insulin delivery systems in helping patients meet their
individual therapeutic goals. 
Dr.
Eric Freedland's
