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At Patient-Centered Diabetes Care held April 16-17 in Boston, Massachusetts, Patrick J. O'Connor, MD, MA, MPH, senior clinical investigator at HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research and clinical associate professor or family medicine and community health at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, kicked off the meeting with a discussion communicating treatment information to patients.

Authors led by Harvard's Frank Hu, MD, write that combating diabetes worldwide requires policy solutions that recognize the societal and environmental forces that work against those who might try to pursue healthier lifestyles. Hu recently spoke at Patient-Centered Diabetes Care 2015, presented by The American Journal of Managed Care and Joslin Diabetes Center.

The study, conducted by the Global eHealth Unit at the Imperial College London, has found that the majority of insulin dosing apps are unreliable and put patients at risk of getting incorrect doses of insulin. Does this demand an FDA oversight of the apps?