Personal Injury Law

Diabetes Treatment Standards Questioned

By Edward Bills

The National Committee for Quality Assurance rescinded its national guidelines for treating diabetes patients in light of a federal study indicating that older patients with heart disease would be harmed if they followed those guidelines. Critics of the guidelines contend they were skewed in favor of providing glucose-lowering drugs because the group receives a portion of its funding from pharmaceutical companies. The committee denies those accusations, but convened a new panel to provide updated guidelines that excludes those over 55 or suffering from heart disease.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).