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THIS WEEK'S ISSUE INCLUDES:

IN THE NEWS...
Medicare Funds Nutritional Therapy
FDA Approves Generic Metformin
Sexual Problems in Men With Diabetes, and More from Diabetes Care
A Major Gift to the Research Foundation
Updated Nutrition Guidelines and Clinical Practice Recommendations
ADA Guide to Medical Nutrition Therapy 

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION...
The Dallas Regional Postgraduate Course will take place on March 30, 2002, at the Dallas Marriott Las Colinas in Irving, Texas.  

ONLINE SHOPPING...
ADA Guide to Medical Nutrition Therapy 
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IN THE NEWS...
Medicare Funds Nutritional Therapy
On January 1, 2002, Medicare began covering medical nutritional therapy for many recipients with diabetes and kidney diseases. With this new benefit, around 4.5 million Medicare recipients with diabetes and an estimated 110,000 with kidney disease are eligible for medical nutritional therapy aimed at helping them learn to make healthy eating choices and better manage their conditions.  The comments of Anne Daly, the Association's President, Health Care & Education, are featured in this article from The Washington Post covering the new benefit.

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FDA Approves Generic Metformin
The US Food and Drug Administration recently granted approval to eleven generic drug manufacturers to market generic versions of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company's popular diabetes medication Glucophage (metformin).  Glucophage is taken orally in pill form, and is currently the world's top-selling diabetes medication. The drug reduces blood sugar levels by curbing production of glucose by the liver. 

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Sexual Problems in Men With Diabetes, and More from Diabetes Care
According to a study published in the February issue of Diabetes Care, the Association's journal of clinical research, more than one-third of adult men with diabetes experience sexual dysfunction.  Also in the February issue, a separate study shows that a particular type of weight-loss surgery can dramatically improve the health of severely obese people with diabetes, and in some cases even send the disease into remission. 

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A Major Gift to the Research Foundation
Terrance H. Gregg and Louise Cotting-Gregg, of Los Angeles, California, have pledged a total of $1,050,000 for the study of diabetes and pregnancy, to the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation.  Mr. Gregg, President of Medtronic MiniMed, the world's leading maker of insulin pump devices, sits on the Association's Research Foundation Board of Directors, and will be honored by the Association's Los Angeles office as a Father of the Year on June 6, 2002. 

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Updated Nutrition Guidelines and Clinical Practice Recommendations
As a supplement to the January, 2002 issue of Diabetes Care, the American Diabetes Association?s journal of clinical research, the Association released an updated compilation of current Association position statements related to clinical practice.  The Clinical Practice Recommendations serve as a convenient and important resource for all health care professionals who care for people with diabetes.  This 2002 update of the compilation includes new, evidence-based nutrition guidelines for the treatment and prevention of diabetes.  The complete Clinical Practice Recommendations are available online.  To review, click here: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/vol25/suppl_1/
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PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION...
The Dallas Regional Postgraduate Course will take place on March 30, 2002, at the Dallas Marriott Las Colinas in Irving, Texas.  
Plans for the program include sessions on Obesity, New Diabetes Treatments and Therapies, Nutritional Issues in Diabetes and Clinical Management of CVD in Diabetes.  In addition, workshop and meet-the-professor sessions include Assessment of Risk and Treatment of Obesity in Children, New Medicare Guidelines, Charcot Foot and Combination Therapy and Successful Interventions for Diabetes Self-Management.  

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ONLINE SHOPPING...
ADA Guide to Medical Nutrition Therapy 
Great book to add to your reference library. From nutrition self-management education to issues related to glucose and lipid goals, this comprehensive book presents a research-based approach to clinical nutrition therapy for people with diabetes. 

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