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Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his suicide machine. A lawyer and friend of Kevorkian says the assisted suicide advocate has died at a Detroit-area hospital at the age of 83. He became known as Dr. Death. Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist who helped dozens of ill people commit suicide, died Friday at age 83 in a Detroit hospital. He launched a nationwide divisive debate over assisted suicide. And Kevorkian had Northwest connection. In 1990 he helped an Oregon woman who had Alzheimer’s committ suicide. Full Post…

Intensive insulin therapy using a continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion pump is sometimes necessary for patients with type 1 diabetes. Insulin pumps come with different optional features that may measure different parameters. The importance of these features and the parameters they measure in effective glycemic control was assessed in a study of 88 consecutive type 1 diabetes patients on CSII therapy. Patient data collected included demographics, anthropometrics, disease characteristics , glycated hemoglobin , blood glucose, carbohydrate intake, insulin dosage and pump adherence. Pump features assessed included the manual prime and rewind function, the bolus calculator wizard and the number of glucose readings.

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