Diabetes Costs Laid Bare – USA
This report of a US Senate hearing on US TV should be seen by every legislator globally to alert them to the rising cost of diabetes and why action on prevention, early diagnosis and reimbursed treatment is so important. Presented in the US Senate, research by the American Diabetes Association revealed the staggering cost of […]
Some Observations
The ADA Scientific Sessions are mostly what the title suggests, scientific and concentrating on research studies and commercial presentations. It was more about tomorrow than today. It was also disproportionately biased towards type 1 research, perhaps not surprisingly as that is where the big ticket technology is aimed. There were many presentations on advancements in […]
Diabetes and Heart Failure
Diabetes appears to play a critical role in the progression from preclinical heart failure to overt heart failure, according to a poster presented at the ADA Scientific Sessions. The researchers, Dr. Justin B. Echouffo Tcheugi, and colleagues, observed 383 heart failure events and 730 deaths over the 8.6 years of follow-up. Overall, the study showed […]
Taming the Wild West
The digital health world is often considered “the wild West” given the number of options and the difficulties that payers, providers, and patients have identifying high quality options. To solve this issue, the American Diabetes Association teamed up with NCQA to engage thought leaders to identify criteria that could be used to ultimately certify the […]
Nutrition News: Could More Protein in a Diet reverse Type 2 Diabetes?
India’s largest ongoing diabetes study has opened up a formula to reverse or slow down the onset of diabetes. The focus in diabetes care has shifted from mere medication to its reversal. Doctors working on the study have suggested that in order to achieve this goal, a person’s diet needs proteins to make up to […]
Technology Corner
A presentation at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Conference this June claimed that an intervention program powered by artificial intelligence and data collected by sensors was linked to a type 2 diabetes remission rate of more than 80 percent. https://www.healio.com/news/endocrinology/20220605/most-with-type-2-diabetes-achieve-remission-with-twin-precision-treatment-technology Dexcom announces its newest CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring) System https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dexcom-announces-dexcom-one-newest-072900150.html
The American Diabetes Association continues to support the efforts of people campaigning to cap the cost of Insulin.
ADA members have successfully put the issue on the agenda of numerous State legislators. The ADA says the cost of life-saving insulin nearly tripled between 2002 and 2013. Separately the Diabetes Leadership Council (DLC), who are also campaigning to reduce the cost of insulin, have said that they were excited around both President Biden’s State […]
How Socioeconomic Status Drives Disparities in Health care
CAPTION: Ananta, Addala believes both environmental and discrimination contribute to disparities in health care. A presentation by Ananta Addala, to the virtual American Diabetes Association congress addressed how low socioeconomic status is a main driver of disparities in health care. Ananta, a paediatric endocrinologist and physician scientist at Stanford University, California, referred to a variety […]
ADA and Beyond Type (BT1) Partnership Announced
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) and Beyond Type 1 (BT1) have linked-up. The partnership will feature combined resources, strategies, and tactics to better serve people living with type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and pre-diabetes. The partnership is founded on a shared vision that both organisations will have greater impact by working together and playing […]
India and South Asia Improved Outcomes
Roche and Wellthy Diagnostics presented at the recent Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association in San Francisco, compelling data of improved diabetes care outcomes in a South Asian population when patients followed a prescribed plan of medication and lifestyle modification in conjunction with a combination therapy of self-monitoring blood glucose device and a clinically […]