Researchers believe that the use of a combined immunosuppressive regimen including rituximab, cyclophosphamide, and steroid pulses is both safe and effective when treating patients with type B insulin resistance. This was found true when the immunosuppressant was followed by azathioprine …
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Diabetes Health: Making Healthcare Work Better For Everyone
Today, 20 million more Americans have insurance because of the ACA, bringing our uninsured rate to an all-time low. Since the ACA was enacted, health care prices have been rising at the slowest rate in five decades. And with new …
Diabetes Evolutions: The Office Visit
The logbook was the thing. That little sheaf of pages, divided into box after box after box. Inside, filled-in blood glucose numbers from one day to the next, one time to the next.
You would carry the logbook into your …
Diabetes Health Type 1: Celebrity Chef Sam Talbot
North Carolina-born chef Sam Talbot first came to national attention when he placed third in the Season 2 run of Bravo’s Top Chef TV competition. Sam, who has type 1 diabetes and wears a tubeless OmniPod insulin pump (and also …
Diabetes Health In The News: Collaborative Care with Pharmacists Improves Care for Type 2 Diabetes Patients
Those who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes receive better care when they are treated by a multidisciplinary collaborative care team, a study revealed. These findings were reported by the National University of Singapore, which conducted a six-month trial …
Diabetes Health in the News: Medicare to Pay for Complex Medical Care
A new set of Medicare rules put into effect on January 1, 2017 will help to more adequately pay physicians for the time-consuming work of managing chronic healthcare needs among older patients. Under these new rules, physicians will be paid …
Diabetes Health in the News: Providers May Be Challenged by Stage 3 Meaningful Use Requirements
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized Stage 3 Meaningful Use requirements, which are slated to begin in 2018. While the program has over a year until it starts, stakeholders are arguing that it is too burdensome …
Diabeteshealth.com Redesign
By now, you have already noticed that our site is going through a redesign. All the feedback about the new look has been very positive. We encountered some glitches that we are still working out. The diabeteshealth.com site was built …
A New Kind of Pharmacist
Ross Valley Pharmacy, tucked away inside a larger building of clinics, is not a big place, but it’s very very busy. Its owner, Paul Lofholm, PharmD, has a vision of the pharmacist’s role that goes far beyond simply putting pills …
