The Endocrine Society Supports The American Diabetes Association’s
January 21st, 2010 admin
The Endocrine Society released a statement supporting the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) new clinical practice recommendations adding the use of the A1C blood test to the traditional tests that use blood sugar measurements in the diagnosis of diabetes and pre-diabetes…
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Collectively, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), the American Diabetes Association, and The Endocrine Society continue to carefully review the information on rosiglitazone available in the public domain and await further information from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) following the completion of the Joint Meeting...
The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) has approved the use of A1c as an additional diagnostic criterion for type 2 diabetes. An A1c of 6.5 or greater is now considered an alternate criterion for the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. The decision was announced in a position statement entitled “The AACE/ACE Statement on the...
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The American Diabetes Association issues the following statement in response to yesterday’s California Court of Appeal ruling in the case of American Nurses Association et al. v. O’Connell, et al. (California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, Case No. C061150)…
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