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COVID19 effect on People With Diabetes
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COVID19 effect on People With Diabetes

The history of the pandemic offers an informative overview of the entire section. In doing so, the importance of learning more about the risks COVID-19 poses to people living with diabetes. Diabetes has not yet been shown to increase the likelihood of infection, but progression to severe illness is more likely in people with diabetes. Neither the mechanisms underlying the increased risk nor the best interventions to limit it have yet been defined, but the studies in this issue offer important clues. Clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with diabetes and COVID-19 in association with glucose-lowering medication The study showed in ADA’s Diabetes Care journal, researchers analyzed data of 904 COVID-19 patients, of whom 136 had diabetes, to evaluate whether the type...
Pharma Major Lupin Launches its First Chatbot named ANYA
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Pharma Major Lupin Launches its First Chatbot named ANYA

A medtech firm Lupin has reportedly roled out a chatbot named ‘ANYA’ which has been basically designed to provide medically verified information for health-related queries. This particular disease awareness bot aims to answer patient queries related to ailments. The bot was launched at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes. ANYA is chatbot trained to help patients with health-related concerns as part of their disease management. “At Lupin, we continue to explore ways to integrate technology to support effective patient care. Chatbot as a technology has enormous potential to aid in medical assistance and to support in building awareness and breaking myths associated with various therapies,” said Rajeev Sibal, President - IRF, Lupin. ANYA is currently...
This Idea Can Save 125,000 Life in The United States Annually
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This Idea Can Save 125,000 Life in The United States Annually

This is a story of how a new medical adherence and management, TrackMyStack.com -- designed to help people manage their regimen for their health condition is helping patients quickly learn about alternatives for their treatment and discover other’s going through the exact same thing as them. About 125,000 deaths occur annually in the United States alone due to non-adherence to medical treatments. Now that I've got your attention (hopefully!) let me tell you more about what adherence means in this context, it means taking the right dose at the right time at the right frequency, consistently till required. The reason people become non-adherents is because they either forget to take their medication, run out of it, patients feeling like it is ineffective or because of side effects. The ...