Diabetes - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1996
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Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)

diabetes to support services for those with catastrophic illnesses such as AIDS. Through the church's efforts, hundreds of residents in Riverhead and beyond have been able to climb out of poverty, drug abuse, and crime to create lives of... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Sep 2004
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A Market-Based Prescription

and nephrologist. In a focused factory, all these resources are integrated. These diabetic specialists jointly develop treatment protocols and pricing. Together, they offer a full range of services customized for this disease. Research... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

20 Jan 2015
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Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

doctors and hospitals.” “No provider has all of your records,” says Bushkin, adding that a study published in the Journal of Patient Safety found that 440,000 Americans die annually as the result of medical errors. “Someone who is a View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient

would provide the specialists and the full range of necessary care for patients suffering from chronic diseases or disabilities such as diabetes or bad backs. Rather than leaving it to the patient to search for a specialist in one area,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

Nation in health care, with a focus on preventing diabetes in indigenous populations. "I quickly realized that business alone was not enough to reverse the dysfunction of some tribal economies," says Keen. Earlier, he'd experienced the... View Details

14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle

2009), the company's cofounder and CEO. The device, which is powered by an electric motor, is highly customizable across a variety of medical, animal, agricultural, and cosmetic applications. One major market, says Anquetil, is diabetes... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; medical technology; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Oct 2000
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John C. Sawhill Remembered

John Sawhill, a senior lecturer at HBS and president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, died of complications from diabetes in May at the age of 63. Sawhill, whose research focused on the nonprofit sector, joined the HBS faculty in 1997... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall

pharmaceutical companies focused their R&D on treatments for common illnesses — such as diabetes and high cholesterol — an approach that resulted in the development of blockbuster drugs. We now recognize that diseases are far more complex... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

30 Jun 2017
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Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, had a brand problem: the disease it addressed was no longer known as juvenile diabetes, as children and adults were being diagnosed in equal numbers. Pitter-Armand was charged with repositioning the... View Details

Keywords: April White

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

due to the condition. In addition, 3 percent of Mexicans suffer from glaucoma and 7 percent of diabetics in Mexico are needlessly blind. According to salauno, only 30 percent of the Mexicans who need corrective vision procedures or... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2010
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Chaotic Funding Derails Research

diabetes by creating new beta cells in the pancreas. This is difficult work that is high risk but high reward. You have come to grips with the many ethical considerations in working with stem cells derived from embryos that were created... View Details

Keywords: William Sahlman; Science funding; stem cell research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out

particularly interesting to Mukhtar, based on his experience as a physician in Nigeria, where medical treatment is essentially unavailable or unaffordable for much of the population. "One cohort in Singapore that is highly susceptible to hypertension and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2020
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Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

symptoms of diseases like diabetes or congestive heart failure. Before the implantable congestive heart failure monitor, for example, we had very poor diagnostic tools to alert the need for ASAP therapy, but these sensors can now alert... View Details