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THIS ISSUE INCLUDES:

1. A Simple Step To Prevent Diabetes, High Blood Pressure and Heart
Disease
2. The American Diabetes Association 61st Scientific Sessions is Fast
Approaching
3. Los Angeles Postgraduate Course
4. Review of DiabetesOneStop.com
5. Facilitating Lifestyle Change: A Resource Manual
6. A Message from WebMD

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1. A Simple Step To Prevent Diabetes, High Blood Pressure and Heart
Disease

In a recent study in Washington State, researchers with Premera Blue
Cross found that thousands of patients with high blood pressure,
diabetes, or past heart attacks may be missing the life-enhancing
benefits of the right blood pressure medications. Comparing prescription
guidelines with the drugs actually used by people to control their blood
pressure, the study found that far too many diabetes patients were not
taking the most effective medications or taking no blood pressure
medicine at all. Click here for the full story:

http://www.diabetes.org/enews/053101_simple.asp



2. The American Diabetes Association 61st Scientific Sessions is Fast
Approaching

The American Diabetes Association 61st Scientific Sessions is scheduled
to occur in Philadelphia, PA, June 22- 26, 2001. This year's program is
the most extensive ever, offering over 140 sessions across 9 theme
areas. For more information or to register for this meeting, click on
the following link:

http://www.diabetes.org/am01



3. Los Angeles Postgraduate Course

The Los Angeles Postgraduate Course will take place on July 21, 2001, at
the Los Angeles Marriott Downtown. Plans for the program include
sessions on Obesity and Type 2 in Children, New Diabetes Treatments and
Therapies, Nutrition and Clinical Management of CVD in Diabetes. In
addition, workshops and meet-the-professor sessions include
Contraception and Pre-conception Care in Women with Diabetes, Cost
Effective Patient Education, Pharmacologic Treatment of Type 2,
Management of Type 2 in Children, and Reaching Lipid and Blood Pressure
Goals. For more information or to register for this meeting, click on
the following link:

http://www.diabetes.org/rpg/la



4. Review of DiabetesOneStop.com

Medical writer and Internet journalist Rick Mendosa investigates the
services and people of the diabetes-focused Web site
DiabetesOneStop.com. The site targets four primary audiences: health
care professionals, people working for the pharmaceutical industry,
scientists, and those living with diabetes. Praised by Mendosa for its
diverse content and usability, the site offers educational materials,
clinical and scientific articles, as well as conference abstracts and
reports.

http://www.diabetes.org/mendosa/June0101.asp


5. Facilitating Lifestyle Change: A Resource Manual

At last, a resource to help you effect positive behavioral change in
your patients with diabetes. This valuable tool approaches lifestyle
change through a four-step model - Assessment, Goal Setting,
Intervention, and Evaluation and features a series of reproducible forms
to facilitate data collection and monitoring.

http://list.diabetes.org/UM/T.ASP?A19.22.106.2.10460



6. A Message from WebMD

Where can your patients get easy-reading news and information about
heart disease that's always reviewed by physician-editors before
publication -- to ensure that it's accurate and up to date? At WebMD's
Heart Disease Condition Center. Click here for details!

http://list.diabetes.org/UM/T.ASP?A19.22.106.1.10460


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