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Cleveland Clinic will host an online health chat on Strategies to Prevent Heart Disease*on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 12 noon (EST). The chat will be led by Dr. Stanley Hazen, the Head of the Section for Preventive Cardiology & Rehabilitation, Director for the Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Prevention, and staff physician in the Departments of Cell Biology and Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. During this chat, Dr. Hazen will answer questions about heart and vascular disease risk factors, prevention and how to live a heart healthy life.

Dr. Hazen is board certified as a Diplomat of both the American Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners. He has completed additional training in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. He sees patients within the Preventive Cardiology Clinic, specializing in care of patients with hyperlipidemia, diabetes and hypertension. His research interests include understanding the role of inflammation and oxidant stress in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and other inflammatory diseases. He is an expert in the biochemistry of leukocyte peroxidases, free radicals and reactive oxygen species and mechanisms of oxidative damage.

More information on this chat can be found at http://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/ChatReg/hazen.html

The transcript for this chat will be available on ClevelandClinic.org a few days after the event.

The Global Diabetes Handprint initiative is a non-branded fund raising event to raise awareness of diabetes and fund not for profit organizations like TCOYD to continue their missions. You can read about this initiative and submit your hand with a word that describes what diabetes means to you at DiabetesHandprint.com. It is open to anyone of any age with or without diabetes. The Johnson and Johnson foundation will donate five dollars to TCOYD (Taking Control of Your Diabetes) or DCEA (Diabetes Education and Camping Association) for every submission. Please take a few minutes to support diabetes education. If you feel appropriate, please forward on to others.

The Diabetes Mall now carries the WaveSense Presto Blood Glucose Test Strips. Order test strips and get a FREE Presto Glucose Meter.

These fast, accurate, and competitively priced test strips are now available in our online store. WaveSense uses a new technology that personalizes each test to provide world class accuracy. It detects and corrects for common sources of error that make blood glucose measurements inaccurate.

In the coming months, JDRF will step up its efforts to expand health plan coverage for the continuous glucose monitors. You can join this campaign by responding to this short survey.

The FDA has approved the FreeStyle Navigator Continuous Glucose Monitoring System in the US. Designed to discretely and continuously measure glucose levels through a sensor in the back of the upper arm or abdomen, this system provides minute-by-minute information about which way and how quickly blood sugar levels are changing. Take a look at our continuous monitoring comparison page to see it up against the competition.