Integrated Diabetes Services

Control Solutions Newsletter

The Control Solutions newsletter was published by Integrated Diabetes Services until 2010. In it you can read about insurance and reimbursement, new products, glucose control tips, personal stories and accomplishments of our clients and much more. Click on the links below to access the archives.

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Newsletter Highlights:

Winter, 2010

• Health Care Reform: Pros & Cons
• Live Chat for IDS Clients
• Patient Spotlight: Elliot Shelkrot
• New Product Focus: Accu-Chek Compact Plus
• OmniPod Downloads & Disposal
• Play Pump Pursuit!
• New Solo Pump
• Welcome to the Team: Jacki Dwyer RD, LDN, CDE
• New "Shape Up" Program
• Turbo Charging Insulin?
• Basal Insulin and Exercise Lows
• Support for Symlin Users

Spring, 2009

• Interpreting CGM Data
• CGM Data Analysis Service
• Patient Spotlight: Tristan Walker
• New Product Focus: Freestyle Navigator
• Pump Club becomes "Diabetes Tech"
• Copilot Software Features
• Instructional Web Sites
• Record Keeping and Weight Loss
• Benefits of Low-GI Eating
• How Blood Donation Affects A1c
• How Carb Counting Affects A1c
• Welcome to the Team: Karen Bellopede

Spring, 2008

• Comparing Rapid Acting Insulins
• New Product Focus: Symlin Pen
• Navigator CGM Approved
• Dexcom Goes Wireless
• Downloading Your Devices
• Advance vs. Accord Study Results
• Vitamin D & Type-1 Protection
• Yoga Preserves Range of Motion
• Patient Spotlight: Dianna Emery O'Connell
• Remote Patient Spotlight: Michaela L.
• Translating A1c into BG Average
• Welcome to the Team: Liz Oakes RD, LDN
• Diabetes Cycling Club

Fall, 2007

• New Technology Update
• CGM Trials
• Ketone Testing for Pumpers
• Inset 30 Infusion Set
• Color Screen on Animas Pump
• Medtronic Links with Lifescan
• Vitamin B1 & Complications
• Lantus vs. Levemir
• New Product Feature: I-Port
• Patient Spotlight: Brenda Harmelin
• Trial Net Enrollment Opportunities

Winter / Spring, 2007

• Secrets to accurate carb counting
• New insulin pump features & comparisons
• Diabetes research summary
• Financial relief for prescriptions & supplies
• The upcoming DESA conference
• Patient spotlight & accomplishments
• The funny side of diabetes
• Welcome to the IDS team: Karin Sargrad MS, RD, CDE
• Calendar of Events

Spring, 2006

• The new continuous glucose monitoring systems
• New pump infusion sets and accessories
• Criteria for selecting an insulin pump
• Research & tips on physical fitness
• The latest news on diabetes research & control
• Our patient spotlight and accomplishments
• A calendar of diabetes events for the rest of the year

Fall, 2005

• IDS goes national
• Not so Simple Symlin
• Do you have "Syndrome X"?
• New for Type 2 - Byetta
• New Product Focus: OmniPod
• Patient Spotlight: Zack Fasfeld

Spring, 2005

• Integrated Diabetes Services Is Going National
• DESA Conference
• New Product Focus: OptiClik Pen
• The New Paradigm 515/715
• D-Life Debuts
• Predicting Celiac Disease
• New Neuropathy Treatment
• Sources for Free Medications
• Calculating Average Blood Sugar from A1c
• Parents' Tips for Lowering Kids' A1cs
• Islet Cell Regeneration for Type-1s
• Featured Product: Calorie King on CD Rom

Summer, 2004

• Low Carb Diet Lowdown
• New Product Focus: Ascensia Contour
• New Pump Infusion Sets
• Unused Insulin Calculations
• INGAP: Cure in the Making?
• Humalog/Novolog Action Comparisons
• Welcome to the IDS Team: Judy Tripathi & Debbie Liebman
• Featured NEW Product: "Think Like a Pancreas"
• Patient Spotlight: Matthew Bashall

Spring 2004:

• Focus on Celiac Disease
• New Product Focus: Freesytle Flash
• Cozmo Pump Upgrade
• Quick Set Plus infusion set
• New Animas 1200 Pump
• The Ultimate Carb Counting Test
• Missed boluses and higher A1c
• Exercising away erectile dysfunction
• Patient Spotlight: Quinn McGarvey
• Meter Quiz

Summer 2003:

• Office Move
• CGMS Now Available
• New Product Focus: One Touch UltraSmart
• Research Studies Underway
• Lidocaine treatment for neuropathy
• Laughter, the Best Medicine
• Weight Loss Options
• Patient Spotlight: Len Lutz

Winter 2003:

• Medicare Billing Available
• Top-10 Things for a Diabetic to be Thankful For
• New Product Focus: NovoPen Junior
• Animas Updates Clip
• Disetronic Introduces D-Tron Plus
• Edmonton Protocol Update
• Amylin and After-Meal Control
• Immune Response Triggers
• Our First Research Grant
• Blood Donation Guidelines
• Diabetic Complications in Children
• TV Viewing and Obesity
• Patient Spotlight: JuJuan Bonner
• Avoiding Holiday Weight Gain

Summer 2002:

• Glucowatch Report
• New Product Focus: Lantus
• Is Seven Enough? New Pumps Enter the Market
• Summertime Pumping
• New Neuropathy Treatment
• Caffeine and Blood Sugars
• Security Alert: Traveling with Diabetes Supplies
• Downsizing with Diabetes
• Patient Spotlight: Adam Murauskas
• Movie Trivia: Panic Room

Winter 2002:

• HbA1c Research Report on IDS Patients
• Fingerstick A1c Testing Now Available
• Patient Spotlight: Morton Waldbaum
• Infusion Set Injectors
• Medicare Guidelines for Pump Coverage
• New Product Focus: NovoLog, AccuCheck Compact
• Diabetes Prevention Program Results
• U of Penn's Islet Transplant Program
• Early Retinopathy Development
• Keeping Lean in a Fattening World

Winter 2001:

• Insulin-Producing K-Cells
• Giving Support, Getting Support
• Patient Spotlight: Noah Levick
• IDS's New Web Site
• New Product Focus: Freestyle Blood Glucose Meter
• Aspirin for Preventing Heart Attacks
• Hypoglycemia-Sensing Dogs
• Salt and Blood Pressure
• Glargine Insulin Ready for Release
• Prefilled Cartridges for Pump Use
• Depression and Diabetes
• Diabetes and Eating Disorders

Fall 2000:

• Peer Counselor Program
• Bret Boyer on Stress and Diabetes
• New Product Focus: Avandia
• Kings & Queens of Carb Counting
• D-Tron Pump Introduced
• Using the Extended Bolus
• MiniMed's CGMS
• More on Islet Transplants
• Protein's Effects on Blood Sugar
• Nutrition Q & A
• Free Nutrition Lectures Underway
• Patient Spotlight: Mary Groves

Summer 2000:

• Islet Transplant Success
• Pump Variety
• New Product Focus: Xenical
• Welcome to the Team: Maura Emery
• Downsizing with Diabetes
• Nutrition Q & A
• ADA Scientific Sessions Report
• Pumping in Hot Weather
• New Infusion Sets
• Patient Spotlight: Melissa Bernett

Spring 2000:

• Weight Loss Through Insulin Reduction
• "Lighten Up" Weight Loss Program
• New Neuropathy Support Group
• New Product Focus: AtLast Blood Glucose Meter
• Animas Introduces R-1000 Insulin Pump
• Study on Teens and Pumping
• Continuous Glucose Monitoring Update
• Patient Spotlight: M'Annette Ruddell
• Welcome to the team: January Coyle

Fall 1999:

• Medicare Coverage for Insulin Pumps
• Dietitian Joins the Practice
• Cutting Fat in Recipes
• Pregnancy and Blood Glucose Control
• Annual Meeting Report
• Proper Treatment for Hypoglycemia
• Downloading Blood Glucose meters
• Pump Web Sites
• Patient Spotlight: Kristin Protesto

Summer, 1999:

• Pump Survey Results
• New Product Focus: Bayer Vaculance
• Welcome to the Team: Joanne Mullin
• Disetronic's latest pump cases
• Recipes: Easy Turkey Loaf, Homer's Moon Waffles
• Research Update from ADA annual meeting
• JDRF Cure Conference Report
• Patient Spotlight: Sonia Seifert

Spring 1999:

• MiniMed's First Glucose Sensor Approved by FDA
• Timing Your Humalog
• New Product Focus: Precision Sure-Dose Syringes
• Patient Spotlight: Terry Stinson
• Managing Your Stress
• Weight Belts: Hip or Hype?
• Life Insurance for People with Diabetes
• House Bill 656 Becomes Law
• Prescription Assistance Programs

Winter 1996:

• Humalog Makes an Impact
• Thymus Studies at U of Penn
• New Product Focus: Short Needle Syringes
• Chromium & Diabetes
• Insulin Pumpers' Top-10 List