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Telemedicine and Diabetes Care



At 300 pounds, Chris Burke knew he needed to lose weight. He’d been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2005 and promptly did everything his doctors asked of him. Initially, that meant following a diet and exercise regimen, along with taking daily doses of metformin. Eventually—as his condition worsened and he became insulin deficient—that meant giving himself injections of insulin up to seven times a day. But his blood glucose levels remained dangerously high.

After two years of trying to manage his diabetes, he was up to 425 pounds and his blood glucose levels were three times the norm. In 2007, he was hospitalized with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a life-threatening…

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 Telemedicine and Diabetes Care

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HEAL Clinics

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Diabetes360

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Parsley Health

The next-generation of primary care is personal. Parsley Health takes a functional, whole body approach to medicine, and believes in real, genuine doctor-patient relationships.

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Diabetes Center at UCSF

The Diabetes Center at UCSF typically conducts numerous clinical trials relating to the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Eskind Diabetes Clinic

The Eskind Diabetes Clinic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center diagnoses and treats adults with diabetes. Our specialists will assess your overall health and develop a personalized plan to manage your diabetes. From the latest in technology to diabetes self-management, you and your family will have all you need to live well with diabetes.

Joslin Diabetes Center

Joslin Diabetes Center is the only diabetes institution in the world that goes beyond a single focus. With efforts in these three critical areas, a synergy develops: researchers, clinicians and educators collaborate in ways that produce cutting-edge scientific discovery, unique clinical care models and pioneering educational strategies.

The Best Children’s Hospital Diabetes Programs

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The Naomi Berrie Diabetes Clinic

The Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, combining unprecedented family-oriented patient care and education with world-class diabetes research programs, has been named one of three "Diabetes Centers of Excellence" in New York State

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