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Welcome to Diabetes E-News Now! - Health Care Professional Edition, the
electronic newsletter of the American Diabetes Association for health care professionals. You are receiving this newsletter because you have been active on the http://www.diabetes.org Web site. If you experience any difficulty accessing the news articles, they are also available in the "News" area on our web site at: http://www.diabetes.org/News/default.asp Being a Diabetes E-News Now! member is free and your privacy is guaranteed. If you do not wish to receive this electronic newsletter, please visit the link below to update your subscription or unsubscribe. http://www.diabetes.org/emaillist2.asp?email=gstorey@ect.enron.com __________________________________ 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 ______________________________________ 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 ________________ Some of the articles in Diabetes E News Now! are generated from wire service stories only and not by the American Diabetes Association. Therefore, the American Diabetes Association has no control over the editorial or grammatical content and does not endorse the information contained in the articles. Neither the American Diabetes Association nor any third-party provider of information guarantees the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any content, nor its merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. This e-mail newsletter is sent to you free from the American Diabetes Association. 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