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Treating a Million Diabetes Patients, VA Stays at Cutting Edge Cont.
Treating the individual
Just as individualized glycemic targets are recommended by VA, so, says Pogach, is individualized treatment. While the aforementioned algorithms are useful guidelines, a patient’s treatment also depends upon where they pres...
Treating a Million Diabetes Patients, VA Stays at Cutting Edge Cont.
Discussing targets with patients
One of the reasons for flexible HbA1c guidelines is that health risks of tight control with intensive insulin treatment may be dependent upon the duration of the disease and other factors that are not always well u...
Treating a Million Diabetes Patients, VA Stays at Cutting Edge
With responsibility for treating diabetes in more than a million veterans in its primary-care population, VA is at the leading edge of care for the metabolic disease.
Best-Practice Programs Reduce Diabetes Rate Among Native Americans, Alaskans Cont.
Indian Health Service Best Practices
Adult Weight Management and Cardiometabolic Risk Management and Diabetes Guidelines
Breastfeeding Support
Cardiovascular Health and Diabetes
Diabetes/Pre-Diabetes Case Management
Community Advocacy
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Best-Practice Programs Reduce Diabetes Rate Among Native Americans, Alaskans Cont.
These successes were formally recognized recently with a Special Recognition Award from Dr. Yvette Roubideaux, director of the IHS, “for innovative and outstanding teamwork that successfully demonstrated cardiovascular disease risk reduction in Am...
Best-Practice Programs Reduce Diabetes Rate Among Native Americans, Alaskans Cont.
The need for such a program targeting the Native population is clear, she said.
“Type 2 diabetes has quickly emerged as one of the most serious and devastating health problems of our time; although the growing diabetes epidemic threatens populatio...
Best-Practice Programs Reduce Diabetes Rate Among Native Americans, Alaskans
Following encouraging results from a demonstration project that involved 36 Indian Health Service (IHS), tribal and urban Indian health programs, the IHS has added “Youth and Type 2 Diabetes Prevention and Treatment” to its list of best practices.
National Drug Shortages Plague VA; Pharmacy Officials Detail Response at Public Hearing Cont.
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VA uses FDA’s national drug-shortage website to help predict where and when it will have difficulties. The agency also must do its own research, and, for some drugs, it is simply too difficult to predict when and where they wil...
National Drug Shortages Plague VA - Pharmacy Officials Detail Response at Public Hearing
SILVER SPRING, MD — VA is not immune to the effects of drug shortages, and even small problems in the drug pipeline can have serious effects on the department’s ability to get the right pharmaceutical to the right patient, VA officials said at a recent public hearing.
Powerful New Scanner Improves Diagnosis, Treatment of TBI, PTSD Cont.
The new device has other advantages. In addition to combining the MRI and the PET Scan, the tool allows for more comprehensive results. Additionally, traditional PET scanners involve computed tomography imaging, which uses radiation, while the new...
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