• Somatus, a Vienna, Va. -
based kidney care company, raised $ 11 million in Series B funding.
In the June 2007 issue of Health Services Research, a University of Chicago -
based research team reports that a relatively inexpensive national effort to improve the process of
care at selected clinics was able to make enough difference in its first four years that, if sustained, it could reduce patients» lifetime risk of blindness, end - stage
kidney disease and coronary artery disease — all common complications of diabetes.