Comments on: Using Testing Strips For Control Your Diabetes Can Greatly Assist With Your Disease http://www.parentingtoddlersandteens.com/family/229-using-testing-strips-for-control-your-diabetes-can-greatly-assist-with-your-disease Answers To All Your Parenting Questions About Babies, Toddlers, Children And Teens Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:40:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Marisa Veni http://www.parentingtoddlersandteens.com/family/229-using-testing-strips-for-control-your-diabetes-can-greatly-assist-with-your-disease/comment-page-1#comment-443 Marisa Veni Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:37:29 +0000 http://www.parentingtoddlersandteens.com/family/229-using-testing-strips-for-control-your-diabetes-can-greatly-assist-with-your-disease#comment-443 To whom this may concern, As I am sure you are aware, diabetes affects over 23 million children and adults in the United States. Your above article on controlling diabetes makes it likely that many of your readers suffers or act as caretakers to loved ones with diabetes. Focus Pharmacy, a leading on-line pharmacy specializing in diabetes, had pioneered programs geared towards the prevention and treatment of diabetes in adolescents. Focus recently renewed a distribution agreement with Diabetes Sentry Products, Inc., a life-saving portable device manufacturer, to continue to help children and their families manage the complications of diabetes. We thought this news would be of interest to your readers. We have embedded additional information on this product and its life-saving capabilities for diabetes sufferers. Feel free to contact us with any additional information you may need. Sincerely, Marisa Veni 215-340-0480 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Marisa Veni 215-340-0480 / marisa@furiarubel.com Improved Diabetes Care Products Offer Hope for Children and Their Families (FocusPharmacy.com Pens Agreement with Diabetes Sentry Products) HORSHAM, PA (July 2008) – Focus Express Mail Pharmacy, a leading on-line pharmacy specializing in diabetes care, announced a renewed distribution agreement with Diabetes Sentry Products, Inc., a life-saving portable device manufacturer, to continue to help children and their families manage the complications of diabetes. FocusPharmacy.com will feature Diabetes Sentry’s newly FDA approved product, the Sleep Sentry, which alerts people with diabetes of impending medical complications associated with diabetes. Type 1 diabetes, a rapidly progressive disease which currently affects 2 million children nationwide, is steadily rising among young children and adults. Little or no insulin, a hormone necessary to convert food into energy, is produced in the pancreas in a person with Type 1 diabetes. Research conducted on Type 1 diabetes shows that the mortality rate of patients with insulin-dependent diabetes increases dramatically after 15 years of suffering with the disease. With the cost of healthcare rising, many diabetes sufferers are now cutting back on their medications, increasing their chances of developing additional and potentially fatal medical complications. To date, diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death by disease in the United States, killing close to 200,000 people each year and roughly 665,000 new cases of diabetes are diagnosed annually with recent trends showing no signs of stopping. “Although more has to be done to diagnose diabetes in children in a timely manner and give them adequate care, rising health care costs coupled with caring for a young child proves to be a tough challenge for many caretakers”, says Joel Shpigel, R.Ph., CEO and Co-founder of Focus Express Mail Pharmacy. “It is important to Focus Express Mail Pharmacy to provide patients and caretakers with this life-saving technology that while necessary is affordable and can ease some of the difficulties of managing diabetes.” Diabetes Sentry re-released the Sleep Sentry, a portable device worn around the wrist at night to monitor the temperature and moisture of the skin while sleeping. If a hypoglycemic reaction occurs during sleep, the skin will get cold and moist (cold sweat) setting off the Sleep Sentry alarm and waking the patient. Hypoglycemia affects most, if not all, people with Type 1 diabetes and can become a medical emergency if not treated in a timely manner. It can lead to a prolonged unconscious state, permanent brain damage, or even death. Some research estimates that between 4 and 13 percent of the deaths of people with type I diabetes results from hypoglycemic events. This new FDA approved model provides monitoring that people with diabetes need while sleeping. About Focus Express Mail Pharmacy Focus Express Mail Pharmacy brings more than 100 years of combined pharmacy experience and 50 years of specialized service focused on people with diabetes. Focus Express Mail Pharmacy provides expert service, outstanding customer care and convenient home delivery of medications and medical supplies to qualified patients with diabetes and other chronic illnesses. For more information about Focus Express Mail Pharmacy, go to www.FocusPharmacy.com. About Diabetes Sentry Products, Inc. Diabetes Sentry Products, Inc. manufactures Sleep Sentry®, a device that is worn on the wrist of individuals affected with diabetes who are insulin dependent or who have insulin reactions while asleep. Diabetes Sentry Products, Inc. provides diabetes sufferers with the means to detect certain risks associated with diabetes. For more information about Diabetes Sentry Products, Inc. and their products, go to www.diabetessentry.com. To whom this may concern,

As I am sure you are aware, diabetes affects over 23 million children and adults in the United States. Your above article on controlling diabetes makes it likely that many of your readers suffers or act as caretakers to loved ones with diabetes.

Focus Pharmacy, a leading on-line pharmacy specializing in diabetes, had pioneered programs geared towards the prevention and treatment of diabetes in adolescents. Focus recently renewed a distribution agreement with Diabetes Sentry Products, Inc., a life-saving portable device manufacturer, to continue to help children and their families manage the complications of diabetes.

We thought this news would be of interest to your readers. We have embedded additional information on this product and its life-saving capabilities for diabetes sufferers. Feel free to contact us with any additional information you may need.

Sincerely,

Marisa Veni
215-340-0480
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Marisa Veni
215-340-0480 / marisa@furiarubel.com

Improved Diabetes Care Products Offer Hope for Children and Their Families

(FocusPharmacy.com Pens Agreement with Diabetes Sentry Products)

HORSHAM, PA (July 2008) – Focus Express Mail Pharmacy, a leading on-line pharmacy specializing in diabetes care, announced a renewed distribution agreement with Diabetes Sentry Products, Inc., a life-saving portable device manufacturer, to continue to help children and their families manage the complications of diabetes. FocusPharmacy.com will feature Diabetes Sentry’s newly FDA approved product, the Sleep Sentry, which alerts people with diabetes of impending medical complications associated with diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes, a rapidly progressive disease which currently affects 2 million children nationwide, is steadily rising among young children and adults. Little or no insulin, a hormone necessary to convert food into energy, is produced in the pancreas in a person with Type 1 diabetes.

Research conducted on Type 1 diabetes shows that the mortality rate of patients with insulin-dependent diabetes increases dramatically after 15 years of suffering with the disease. With the cost of healthcare rising, many diabetes sufferers are now cutting back on their medications, increasing their chances of developing additional and potentially fatal medical complications. To date, diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death by disease in the United States, killing close to 200,000 people each year and roughly 665,000 new cases of diabetes are diagnosed annually with recent trends showing no signs of stopping.

“Although more has to be done to diagnose diabetes in children in a timely manner and give them adequate care, rising health care costs coupled with caring for a young child proves to be a tough challenge for many caretakers”, says Joel Shpigel, R.Ph., CEO and Co-founder of Focus Express Mail Pharmacy. “It is important to Focus Express Mail Pharmacy to provide patients and caretakers with this life-saving technology that while necessary is affordable and can ease some of the difficulties of managing diabetes.”

Diabetes Sentry re-released the Sleep Sentry, a portable device worn around the wrist at night to monitor the temperature and moisture of the skin while sleeping. If a hypoglycemic reaction occurs during sleep, the skin will get cold and moist (cold sweat) setting off the Sleep Sentry alarm and waking the patient. Hypoglycemia affects most, if not all, people with Type 1 diabetes and can become a medical emergency if not treated in a timely manner. It can lead to a prolonged unconscious state, permanent brain damage, or even death. Some research estimates that between 4 and 13 percent of the deaths of people with type I diabetes results from hypoglycemic events. This new FDA approved model provides monitoring that people with diabetes need while sleeping.

About Focus Express Mail Pharmacy
Focus Express Mail Pharmacy brings more than 100 years of combined pharmacy experience and 50 years of specialized service focused on people with diabetes. Focus Express Mail Pharmacy provides expert service, outstanding customer care and convenient home delivery of medications and medical supplies to qualified patients with diabetes and other chronic illnesses. For more information about Focus Express Mail Pharmacy, go to http://www.FocusPharmacy.com.

About Diabetes Sentry Products, Inc.
Diabetes Sentry Products, Inc. manufactures Sleep Sentry®, a device that is worn on the wrist of individuals affected with diabetes who are insulin dependent or who have insulin reactions while asleep. Diabetes Sentry Products, Inc. provides diabetes sufferers with the means to detect certain risks associated with diabetes. For more information about Diabetes Sentry Products, Inc. and their products, go to http://www.diabetessentry.com.

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