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Team-based approach improves diabetes care

Due to the success of the first three years of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Physicians Foundation Diabetes Initiative, the program has received additional funding from Novo Nordisk Inc. to continue the initiative for an additional two years through December 2009.

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