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Diabetes News
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Care.diabetesjournals.org: July 2012. OBJECTIVE To describe trends of primary efficacy and safety outcomes of islet transplantation in type 1 diabetes recipients with severe hypoglycemia from the Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry (CITR) from 1999 to 2010. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 677 islet transplant-alone or islet-after-kidney recipients with type 1 diabetes in the CITR were analyzed for […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Medicalxpress.com: June 25, 2012 in Addiction Adults who are exposed to secondhand smoke have higher rates of obesity and Type 2 diabetes than do nonsmokers without environmental exposure to tobacco smoke, a new study shows. The results will be presented at The Endocrine Society’s 94th Annual Meeting in Houston. “More effort needs to be made to reduce exposure […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: June 24, 2012. Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco HOUSTON — Diabetic patients treated with three commonly prescribed sulfonylurea drugs had a 50% higher mortality risk compared with patients treated with metformin, data from a large retrospective cohort study suggested. The relative […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
ScienceDaily (June 21, 2012) Preventing diabetes or delaying its onset has been thought to stave off cognitive decline — a connection strongly supported by the results of a 9-year study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Earlier studies have looked at cognitive decline […]
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Diabetes News
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Archderm.jamanetwork.com: June 2012. Objective To assess the risk of incident diabetes mellitus (DM) in patients with psoriasis and to evaluate DM treatment patterns among patients with psoriasis and incident DM. Design Population-based cohort study. Setting United Kingdom–based electronic medical records. Patients We matched 108 132 patients with psoriasis aged 18 to 90 years with 430 716 unexposed patients based […]
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Diabetes News
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Care.diabetesjournals.org: July 2012. OBJECTIVE To assess β-cell function preservation after 3.5 years of intensive therapy with insulin plus metformin (INS group) versus triple oral therapy (TOT group) with metformin, glyburide, and pioglitazone. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a randomized trial of 58 patients with treatment-naïve newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. All patients were treated with insulin and […]
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Diabetes News
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
News-medical.net: Published on June 25, 2012 at 11:25 AM Many patients with type 2 diabetes may be aspirin resistant. That means the standard aspirin dose may not protect them against blood clots that cause heart attacks andstrokes among diabetics, a new clinical study finds. The results will be presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society’s 94th Annual Meeting in Houston. “This result adds to […]
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Medicare News
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
By Nancy Walsh, Staff Writer, MedPage Today, Published: June 26, 2012. Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner The federal government, and by extension the taxpayer, pays “substantial and increasing” duplicate costs for healthcare among adults enrolled in both Medicare Advantage (MA) plans […]
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Medicare News
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Govtech.com: 6/25/2012. Glenn Prager used to be a Medicare fraud fighter for the federal government. Early this year he switched to Medicaid, taking a job as Arizona’s inspector general. His primary task is to keep crooked health-care providers out of the state’s $9 billion Medicaid system. If they slip in under the wire, he says, the […]
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Medicare News
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Ama-assn.org: June 25, 2012. Federal actuaries say Medicare spending will increase steadily as more seniors enroll, but physician pay cuts would slow spending dramatically if allowed to take effect. Washington Federal health actuaries anticipate that growth in national health spending, which has been restrained in recent years, will continue to accelerate as the economy recovers and more […]
