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Obese adolescents are 16 times more likely to become severely obese by age 30 than their healthy weight or even overweight peers, according to a new study….

Participatory decision making during primary care encounters by patients with Type 2 diabetes resulted in improvements in hemoglobin A1c levels….

A team of patients, their families, doctors, and their staff can make a difference in gaining control over diabetes, researchers said….

Santarus Announces Launch of Type 2 Diabetes Drug CYCLOSET CYCLOSET is the first and only centrally acting dopamine agonist oral antidiabetic. CYCLOSET is a prescription drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with Type …

CYCLOSET is the first in-class and only centrally acting dopamine agonist oral antidiabetic. CYCLOSET is a prescription drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus both as monotherapy and in …

SF: Can you give an example of how the error reporting works? KT: I have attached a NCPS Alert (in pdf format) from March 2009 on U 500 Insulin. This was the specific incident: “South West VA CMOP received an order for 40 units of U-500 insulin and questioned its …

SF: What are the most common errors that occur at the VA in regards to diabetes patients and what has the VA done to prevent them from happening again? KT: The data found within NCPS SPOT data is voluntarily reported so it is not a good indicator for prevalence of …

SF: How do you minimize errors? KT: Here is some more background to better understand the basis of our program. Neither the VA nor any other health care system can or will ever be able to “eliminate all errors.” Patient safety programs focused exclusively on eliminating errors will fail….

SF: What is the VA’s NCPS doing to change the medical safety culture so medical professionals will report all errors not just the ones that cause harm? KT: We developed a confidential reporting system that allows VA caregivers to report not only adverse events, but close calls. The NCPS staff …

Plasminogen is an acute phase protein and precursor to plasmin, which digests fibrin, the essential portion of a blood clot….