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THIS WEEK'S ISSUE INCLUDES:

A MESSAGE FROM THE AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION...
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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

COMMUNITY AND RESOURCES...
Diabetes Forecast Live! Replay

ONLINE SHOPPING...
Type 2 Diabetes Your Healthy Living Guide
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A MESSAGE FROM THE AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION...
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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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COMMUNITY AND RESOURCES...
Diabetes Forecast Live!
Catch the replay of the January edition, "What's Hot in New Diabetes Products."  Diabetes Forecast Live! is a monthly webcast that provides real-time interviews with diabetes experts, as well as special guests.  This year has brought a bumper crop of new diabetes products that can help you manage your diabetes--click and hear more about them here: http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a16366a51643a99406973a6

ONLINE SHOPPING...
Type 2 Diabetes Your Healthy Living Guide
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David S. Schade, MD, Professor of Medicine 
The University of New Mexico School of Medicine

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