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Sean Duffy, Omada Health, talks about the launch of PreventNow which began in January 2013. Previous to the public launch, there was a 220 person beta test. The prediabetic participants were notably enthusiastic about the program with about 74% people completing and an average 6% weight loss. Many of those who …

Sean Duffy, Omada Health, talks about PreventNow’s early results which are looking very promising. Omada will continue to collect the data and he points out that, because the system is technology-driven, the data is fairly easy to gather so that they can continue to look at the results over the …

Sean Duffy, Omada Health, talks about how PreventNow is working with large health care organizations such as Viridian to reach patients. In particular, they are interested in partnering with “bricks & mortar” providers where they can provide a web complement giving people options and multiple ways to manage their health….

Sean Duffy, CEO, Omada Health, discusses the potential for PreventNow.com to help prediabetes patients lower overall medical costs. He talks about some of the studies demonstrating these improvements for patients with diabetes and that similar cost savings are very likely with prediabetic patients. More videos with Sean Duffy: Sean Duffy, …

  In this week’s Homerun Slides, we continue our exploration on the state of obesity in 2014 including topics on the relationship of BMI and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus, genes that cause or are associated with diabetes, and the two principal genetic defects in B-cells that can …

Sheri R. Colberg, PhD, and Michael C. Riddell, PhD Hypoglycemia Associated with Physical Activity Hypoglycemia risk. Hypoglycemia is the most common negative side effect of exercise, ranging from mild to life threatening in severity. The incidence of hypoglycemia during or after a single bout of moderate-intensity exercise in children and …

Review: The Spark People Activity Tracker  This Electronic pedometer and activity monitor is accurate and simple to use. Patients can just clip it on a belt or shoe, or even place it in their pants pocket and it monitors activity. Although this sounds like every other pedometer, what makes the …

Responses in focus groups point to a "disconnect" between patients with these conditions and their providers…. 

Both high and low dose steroids now correlated with increased risk of diabetes…. 

High blood glucose affects brain’s hippocampus even in non-diabetics….