In this week’s Homerun Slides set, we wrap up our series on Accountable Care Organizations with a discussion of both the benefits and limitations of these relatively new tools in healthcare management. Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) is also covered….

Donna Jornsay, BSN, RN, CPNP, CDE, talks about her experience as a CDE (since the introduction of the certification) and why she developed a program to help fill the gap in care for in-patient diabetes. She notes that healthcare professionals are seeing an astounding number of patients being diagnosed with …

    By Sheri Colberg, PhD   It’s not enough to lose weight for diabetes management and prevention and better health — you really need to know how to keep it off after you lose it.

FDA Launches Next Stage of "Bad Ad Program" to Detect Misleading Drug Ads. The program is designed to educate healthcare providers about their role in ensuring that prescription drug advertising and promotion is truthful, and not misleading. For more information visit www.fda.gov/badad. New Next-generation OmniPod® Approved by FDA. The new …

We are coming to the end of the holiday season and many of our patients are starting to think about what they will do for their health in the new year. Some of them have asked for exercise equipment or gadgets as a holiday gift, and others have decided to …

  One Step Change Begins with Just One Step    The start of a new year is the perfect time to have your patients think about the lifestyle changes they want to make to be healthier. Small changes — such as losing a small amount of weight and becoming more …

AliveCor iPhone Heart Monitor  AliveCor’s iPhone-compatible single-channel ECG monitor will be available in the US on January 1. The FDAhas cleared the 510(k) for the device. The AliveCor monitor is in a thin case with two electrodes that snaps onto the back of an iPhone 4 or 5. To obtain …

Medical professionals are among the most trusted people in the U.S. a new Gallup survey shows with 85% of survey respondents ranking nurses highest for honesty and ethics, followed by pharmacists (75%) and physicians (70%). The sampling of 1015 people came from all 50 states. Nurses, who have led the …

A new study found that obese women who consumed three meals a day had lower fat in their blood than women who consumed the same calories spread over six small meals. University of Missouri researchers say eating fewer but bigger meals is better metabolically and could lower the risk of …

A study of more than 4,200 Australian children 2 to 16 years old found that those who ate more salt also drank more fluids, particularly sugar-sweetened beverages such as soda, fruit drinks, flavored mineral waters, and sports and energy drinks. The new research suggests that limiting children’s salt intake could …