- December 29, 2006
The Employers Health Coalition of Ohio Inc. launched an incentive program at the start of the year to reward doctors who prove they meet national standards in caring for diabetic patients.
Ten area doctors have earned an annual incentive payment of at least $3,500 each for completing a test to prove they follow recommended guidelines from the American Diabetes Association.
The coalition plans to take out newspaper advertisements starting next month to recognize the doctors, said Christopher Goff, the coalition's president and chief executive.
[Story at Akron Beacon Journal:
Diabetics' doctors earn incentive pay —
Encouraging healthful behavior, ordering recommended tests reap extra money.]
- December 25, 2006
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An elderly, obese, bearded, smoking, rosy-cheeked, twinkling-eyed, jolly male elf,
dressed in soot-covered fur, was seen again
last night — in a tiny reindeer-driven sleigh, on the roof, and coming down the chimney, exclaiming
"Happy Christmas
to all, and to all
a good-night."
[Clement Clarke Moore's complete poem,
A Visit From Saint Nicholas, may be found at
The New York Institute for Special Education, and many other places!]
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- December 9, 2006
Use of oral glucocorticoids
("steroids")
could be a precipitating factor in some cases of new-onset diabetes, researchers report.
Risk of Diabetes Associated With Prescribed Glucocorticoids in a Large Population.
Diabetes Care, 2006 29: 2728-2729.
[Story at Reuters;
extract at
D Care;
full text at
D Care, requires subscription.]
- December 3, 2006
Because of an upswing in the numbers of overweight minority children, more of them are being diagnosed with adult-type diabetes (type 2 diabetes).
[Story at KVOA:
More minority kids getting adult-type diabetes.]
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