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Diabetes Spectrum 14:4-5, 2001
© American Diabetes Association ®, Inc., 2001

Editorial

Mission Possible

Belinda P. Childs, MN, ARNP, CDE, Editor

The mission of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) is "to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes." It is this mission that has kept me involved with the Association for more than 20 years. I am proud now to have the opportunity to serve as editor-in-chief of Diabetes Spectrum.

During our term as volunteer leaders of the Association from 1996 to 1997, Dr. Philip Cryer, my friend and colleague and a first-rate scientist, repeatedly stated that only through research would the ADA achieve its mission. Because of this organizational belief, the ADA is committing more dollars than ever to research and continues to advocate for more federal funding of diabetes research.

No question about it: research is improving the lives of people with diabetes. In the past 10 years, several pivotal studies, including the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial, the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study, and the Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation study, have been completed and their findings reported. Diabetes care and education have become more evidence-based. At the ADA’s 60th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions in San Antonio, Texas in June 2000, 1,911 research abstracts were presented.

With the exponential growth in knowledge and new therapies, diabetes treatment and education strategies have become more complex, both for health care providers and for individuals with diabetes and their families. How do providers . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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