When starting a patient on insulin, there’s more than just teaching how to give an injection and check glucose levels. Teach insulin’s action and side effects, especially the possibility of hypoglycemia, what it is, how to prevent, recognize and treat it.

In last week’s newsletter, we were discussing the melding of drugs and medical technology together to improve patient outcomes. This will be the wave of the future  as more Pharma companies enter into pay-for-performance contracts with insurers and better outcomes will be the only way they can be paid. This …

In part 5 of this Exclusive Interview, Eran Bashan explains how d-Nav works in conjunction with a doctor's prescription and a patient's insulin adjustment, and working with Blue Cross to reach providers.

In this week's Homerun Slides, changing the current classification of diabetes to reflect the beta-cell-centric approach.

The unique property of the pancreatic beta cell is its ability to secrete insulin to enable circulating glucose levels to be maintained within a narrow physiologic range, despite wide fluctuations in energy intake and expenditure.