Diabetes

The Center for Science in the Public Interest released the letter proactively after the Trump administration has already eased rules for school lunches and delayed implementation of a labeling rule for restaurants.

A new study published in Diabetes Care investigates ways to prevent driving accidents among patients with type 1 diabetes, who may be at higher risk of having such mishaps.

The American Medical Association declared obesity a disease in 2013, but insurers have been slow to cover drugs to treat the disease.

The proposed cuts would come just as CMS is gearing up to launch the Diabetes Prevention Program in Medicare starting in January 2018. Diabetes accounts for $1 of every $3 spent in Medicare, and CMS has been looking for ways to slow the number of beneficiaries who develop the disease.

The researchers' hypothesis: improvements in continuous glucose monitoring technology would bring greater quality of life improvements for those with type 1 diabetes, even if they were not using insulin pumps.