Diabetes

The Pharmacy Quality Alliance announced its endorsement of two diabetes-focused health plan performance measures.

The American Pharmacists Association Foundation launched a Spanish-language offering of the CDC and Prevention National Diabetes Prevention program via a partnership with Tabula Rasa HealthCare and SinfoniaRx.

Diabetes care is taking on a new meaning, helped in large part by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other factors. 

The Lilly Diabetes Solution Center can provide significant savings on Lilly insulins. Anyone who uses a Lilly insulin can contact the Lilly Diabetes Solution Center to see whether one of the additional insulins, the Lilly Insulin Value Program or another affordability option is the best financial choice for them.

The Prevent DropSafe Safety Pen Needle, which utilizes a thin 31-gauge needle, is McKesson's 2019 product of the year.

Higi, in partnership with the American Diabetes Association, now is offering a free self-service Type 2 diabetes risk assessment that combines station measurements with a consumer-reported health survey. 

Walgreens is rolling out a billing solution that will allow Medicare patients using Dexcom’s G6 continuous glucose monitoring device to fill their prescription at any of its 9,200 pharmacies.

Patients with diabetes continue to grapple with such perennial problems as blood glucose monitoring, safe injection, and disposal of the sharps they create every day.