Mary Caffrey

Penn Medicine researchers led the analysis of genome sequence information that revealed 16 previously unreported areas connected to type 2 diabetes and 1 connected to coronary heart disease, with 8 variants tied to both conditions.

Quality measurement is here to stay, but a JAMA viewpoint asks if anyone is keeping tabs on the costs of measurement.

Desmond Bell, DPM, CWS, said the patients he's seeing in his wound clinic are getting younger, suggesting that the challenge of preventing complications from peripheral artery disease will increase.

The study finds that the GLP-1 receptor agonist can slow progression of kidney disease, one of the most costly and debilitating complications of type 2 diabetes.

There are positive signs among the youngest children in states where adult obesity rates are highest, but the challenge is to continue that progress as these children get older.

The findings will likely add to the controversy over the US dietary guidelines. Lobbyists for grain interests have long been accused of having undue influence in food policy, especially over the now-discarded "food pyramid."

The merger is yet another sign that in healthcare, it's all about the data.

According to the CDC, 8.9% of children aged 2 to 5 are obese and more than 20% of youth are obese by the time they are 12 to 19 years old.

The largest study of its type sought to pinpoint when the link between weight gain in pregnancy and childhood obesity occurs.

The report finds that the same technology that physicians use to remind patients about appointments can be used to send reminders about screenings or that a payment is past due.

A Dexcom spokeswoman said there are already 20,000 Medicare patients in the pipeline with almost no advertisement of the policy change.

Two Harvard health experts take an in-depth look at who benefits from Medicaid: children and the elderly consume the vast majority of the dollars spent.

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) today offered a position statement on treating diabetes and hypertension for the first time since 2003.

Children who were obese or at risk of obesity had less activity in the brain's self-regulation centers.

More work needs to be done before this discovery can be translated into a therapeutic solution, but researchers have gained insights into why some people become infected with a pathogen and others don't.

To avoid bias, the study did use aggressive titration protocols that might be found in a real-world setting. Still, patients using CGM saw greater reductions in A1C and more time in range.

A cardiovascular outcomes trial has already shown a reduction in cardiovascular events, but not deaths.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health studied an average of 27 national polls on the Affordable Care Act taken by 12 different organizations.

The findings suggest identifying children at risk of T2D and fixing their sleep could be a low-cost way to head off type 2 diabetes.

Cardiologists were thrilled with results of the FOURIER trial, but payers were less moved. Given the drug's $14,000 a year price, some wanted to know if they would see more than the 30% to 35% discounts they had been offered.

Those in the lowest income category had consistently light levels of activity, the study found.

UPDATE: CMS called for other changes to the existing Comprehensive Joint Replacement model. Experts who work with providers on bundled payments have predicted tweaks that will let voluntary programs qualify as an Advanced Alternative Payment Models under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act.

The alliance based at Johns Hopkins seeks to promote high-value healthcare and educate the next generation of medical students in these principles.

The connection between diabetes and cardiovascular disease is well-known, but a new study gets at the mechanism of how this occurs.

The notice says some states have given insurers the ability to build a cushion into silver plan rates to account for the possible loss of cost-sharing reductions. An extra 3 weeks would give plans in more states the chance to do the same thing.

Technology, new standards for diabetes education and support, and data-sharing were themes of this year's annual meeting of the American Association of Diabetes Educators.

Large employers that self-insure can avoid the tax, but that option is off limits to small businesses like restaurants or convenience stores.

The discovery capitalizes on years of work to understand immune system pathways that lead to the destruction of beta cells in type 1 diabetes.

The review reports that fewer than 50% of patients with diabetes are being treated according guidelines to prevent a cardiovascular event.

A study used health data to show that low birth weight babies of all races that lived in areas dominated by African Americans faced the same elevated risk of asthma.