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FreeStyle Lite(TM)
April 17 - Abbott Diabetes Care announced today the launch of its FreeStyle Lite(TM) blood glucose monitoring system for people with diabetes after receiving a 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The new FreeStyle Lite system has an innovative automatic calibration feature that eliminates the manual coding step usually required by most blood glucose meters before starting a new vial of test strips. The easy-to-use FreeStyle Lite meter allows people with diabetes to test quickly and more easily.

“FreeStyle Lite is a welcome new tool for diabetes self-management. The small sample size and automatic calibration makes it easier for patients to test quickly, comfortably and accurately,” said Jane Jeffrie Seley, MPH, MSN, NP, CDE, a diabetes nurse practitioner with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Source

Campaign Offers Easy Steps to Cutting Diabetes Risk
Experts at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) are launching a new national prevention program to help people lower their risk for obesity-linked type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

CheckUp America will educate Americans on curbing risk factors such as overweight/obesity, high blood glucose, high LDL (”bad” cholesterol, high triglycerides, low HDL (”good” cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking and physical inactivity. Source

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Resources:
dLife; About Diabetes.com; American Diabetes Association

Diabetes; Type 1 Diabetes; Type 2 Diabetes