Message-ID: <8447906.1075845341899.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:46:01 -0700 (PDT) From: news@maillist.diabetes.org To: geoff.storey@enron.com Subject: Diabetes E-News Now! Health Care Professional Edition 5/17/2001 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: "News" @ENRON X-To: Storey, Geoff X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Storey, Geoff\Storey, Geoff\Deleted Items X-Origin: STOREY-G X-FileName: Storey, Geoff.pst 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=Geoff.Storey@enron.com ***************************************** THIS ISSUE INCLUDES: 1. Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum - Online! 2. Medical Management of Pregnancy Complicated by Diabetes, 3rd Edition 3. Tell Your Patients! Diabetes Forecast is "LIVE!" 4. New Guidelines Call for More Aggressive Cholesterol Treatment 5. Let the Bidding Begin! 6. A Message from WebMD 7. The American Diabetes Association 61st Scientific Sessions is Fast Approaching 8. 16th Annual Southern Regional Conference on Diabetes 9. Los Angeles Postgraduate Course 1. Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum - Online! The American Diabetes Association is pleased to announce the launch of new and improved websites for its professional journals: Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. For a limited time, ADA is offering free access to the online journals as a service to all who are interested in the latest in diabetes research, care, and education. To familiarize yourself with the online journals' cutting-edge contents, fresh looks, and enhanced functions, please visit: http://www.diabetes.org/Diabetes http://www.diabetes.org/DiabetesCare http://www.diabetes.org/ClinicalDiabetes http://www.diabetes.org/DiabetesSpectrum 2. Medical Management of Pregnancy Complicated by Diabetes, 3rd Edition Newly revised and updated, this popular clinical reference book delivers a complete package of protocols that have resulted in healthy infants in pregnancies complicated by type 1, 2, or gestational diabetes. Plus, current nutritional recommendations for medical nutrition therapy, tailored to pregnant women with diabetes. For more information or to order this book, click on the following link: http://list.diabetes.org/UM/T.ASP?A19.22.96.1.97735 3. Tell Your Patients! Diabetes Forecast is "LIVE!" ADA, in cooperation with HealthTalk Interactive, is pleased to present the newest edition of Diabetes Forecast Live! on May 22 at 8:30PM ET. Diabetes Forecast Live! provides real-time interviews with diabetes experts, as well as special guests. The featured guest for this episode is Australian rocker Hamish Richardson of the group "Brother," and the topic will be traveling with diabetes--something Hamish knows a lot about, being from Down Under. Tell your patients to access Diabetes Forecast Live! via ADA's homepage: http://www.diabetes.org 4. 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/ 5. 16th Annual Southern Regional Conference on Diabetes The 16th Annual Southern Regional Conference on Diabetes, to be held on May 24-27, 2001, at Sawgrass Marriott Resort, Ponte Vedra Beach (Jacksonville), Florida, is one of the four Postgraduate Courses offered by the American Diabetes Association this year. With obesity in children and adults possibly being the single most significant cause of type 2 diabetes, this will be a primary focus of the 2001 program. Other tracks will focus on the dysmetabolic syndrome, diabetes essentials, complications and special management issues. Sixteen interactive workshops scheduled in the afternoons and evenings will have something to offer to all health care professionals. For more information or to register for this meeting, click on the following link: http://www.diabetes.org/adafl/src2001 6. 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 7. New Guidelines Call for More Aggressive Cholesterol Treatment According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), some 53 million Americans have high cholesterol and the U.S. death toll from heart disease is about 500,000 a year. To try and reduce these numbers and prolong lives, the NIH has formed new guidelines for physicians treating people at risk for heart disease. The new, more aggressive guidelines, released Tuesday, May 15, add diabetes and metabolic syndrome to the conditions indicating an increased risk for heart disease, recommend different tests to screen for high cholesterol, and offer modified standards for good and bad cholesterol. The NIH expects the numbers of Americans using prescribed cholesterol drugs and following prescribed, cholesterol-lowering diets to grow sharply For more information on this story, click on the following link: http://www.diabetes.org/enews/051701_Cholesterol.asp 8. Let the Bidding Begin! The American Diabetes Association proudly announces the launch of the Partners For A Cure online auction. Accessible through the Association's Web site, www.diabetes.org, the auction offers an interesting range of items up for bid, including one-of-a-kind items such as "Lucille", B.B. King's affectionately named guitar, an NFL regulation football, signed by Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens, the MVP of the 2001 Super Bowl, and an autographed original photo of the pop rock group N'Sync. Additionally offered are vacation getaways, autographed sports memorabilia and a variety of original artwork and jewelry. Now LIVE online, the auction will continue through the end of June 2001. Registration is free, and for every new registration, the Association receives $5. To learn more and join the auction, access the link below and click on the image of B.B. King: http://www.diabetes.org/auction/ 9. A Message from WEbMD Where can your patients get easy-reading diabetes news and information that's always reviewed by physician-editors before publication -- to ensure that it's accurate and up to date? At WebMD's Diabetes Condition Center. For more information on this story, click on the following link: http://list.diabetes.org/UM/T.ASP?A19.22.96.2.97735 *********************************************************** 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. 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