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Devices for Impaired Vision

This table provides the tools for your patients with...


Chart of Pharmacokinetics of Current Insulin Preparations

This is a current chart of insulins, with type, product name, onset,...


A Nurse's Perspective: Martha M. Funnell, MS, RN, CDE

In our practice we spend time in the community and encounter patients who are seeing primary care physicians and are on minimal therapy as well as patients from our clinic who are managed more aggressively....


An Educator's Perspective: Michelle Laine, A.R.N.P., C.D.E.

Most of my colleagues wait till their patients are maxed out on oral medications -- often this means that they are on 3 or 4 medications without achieving control, before starting them on either basal insulin or GLP-1 analogs....


Physicians' Perspective: Gregory Peterson, MD, and Craig Spellman, MD

Gregory Peterson and Craig Spellman are two physicians who see a lot of diabetes patients in their practices, and are very familiar with the use of GLP-1 agonists. Both of them have written journal articles about the use of these newer...


A Pharmacist's Perspective: Stuart T. Haines, PharmD, FCCP, FASHP, FAPhA

Patient Education and Monitoring Recommendations for the Use of GLP-1's Unlike most diseases, diabetes requires extensive patient...


ADA Standards of Care Check List (pdf)

  A1C is just one of the criteria for the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and prediabetes. On this...


AACE/ACE Diabetes Algorithm for Glycemic Control

View or download the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists diabetes...


UCTV Prime: The Skinny on Obesity (video)

  Is sugar a toxin that's fueling the global obesity epidemic? That's the argument UCSF's Dr. Robert Lustig made ...


Noninsulin Antidiabetic Agents Effects on Blood Glucose

This chart provides you with information on which non-insulin antidiabetic agents can target...


Heart Disease and Diabetes Guide

From dLife comes a guide (in pdf format) that...


National Diabetes Statistics, 2011

The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse has released the new...


Bant iOS App for Your Patients

  This is an easy to use application from the University Health Network that has graphs and trends to show...


Know Your Numbers -- New! (Patient study guide)

There are so many numbers involved in managing diabetes, from your A1C to your cholesterol levels....


My Medication List

  Give patients this one-page printout (pdf) from Merck's Journey for Control...


GLP-1 Analogs and DeFronzo's Octet

This week we present a Special Feature article on GLP-1 Analogs focused on their interaction with Dr. Ralph A. DeFronzo's famous "Octet of Mechanisms"....


Debunking Nutrition Myths

Do your patients know which ones are true and which are false? This is a great form to provide your patients to check their basic understanding.


New Nutrition Resource for Your Patients

  MyFoodAdvisor: Recipes for Healthy...


27 Best Fiber Foods

  Print out this list of the 27 best foods from dLife for your ...


SPECIAL FEATURE: Readers Respond to Dr. Richard Kahn’s Statement: "Diabetes Prevention is a Waste of Resources"

For Dr. Kahn's comments and the Joslin Diabetes Center's response, see our article in last week's newsletter:


Where Do I Begin?

  The ADA has a resource for patients newly diagnosed with type 2 ...


How Type 1 Diabetes Makes You Stronger

  New website for your patients with type 1 diabetes featuring engaging and inspiring videos...


GLP-1 and Appetite Suppression

There has been an increased use of GLP-1 analogs in patients with diabetes over the past two years as the advent of daily dosing has made medication adherence simpler and more clinicians are comfortable with the available choices.


Learning About Diabetes, Inc.

Free Handouts for medical professionals to give to their patients with diabetes.


Surface Plasmonic Biochip to Detect Glucose Levels in Saliva

One holy grail of medical technology research has been the possibility of measuring patients' blood glucose levels indirectly, avoiding the universally hated needle pricks. Not only will this make millions of diabetics jump with joy, it will...


Successful weight loss with GLP-1 agonists

Summary Insights GLP-1 agonists are effective in weight loss as they delay gastric emptying, induce satiety, and decrease food These agents have been successfully studied in obese,...


Testing for Sugar In Your Foods

  Sometimes you'll find yourself at a restaurant, hotel, or reception where you cannot predict if foods have sugar or flour in them. Your waiter probably has little idea of what's in a given recipe, so don't even ask him; his response...


Fit or Fat? Live or Die? You Decide.

  Fatworld is ...


Nutrition IQ for Your Patients

 


United States of Diabetes Report

  You can use the information in this report to provide evidence for your ...


SPECIAL FEATURE: The Safety and Extrapancreatic effects of GLP-1 on cardiovascular tissue, adipose tissue, liver, and kidney

GLP-1 receptors are widely expressed in CV, adipose, hepatic, and renal tissue [80,...


SPECIAL FEATURE: Glucagon-like peptide 1 increases the period of postprandial satiety and slows gastric emptying in obese men

The regulation of food intake is a complex process involving psychologic, social, and physiologic components. Physiologically, it is generally assumed that food intake is regulated by a central feeding drive that is later counterregulated by...


"On-Track Diabetes" App for Patients

  This app lets you log values such as glucose...


SPECIAL FEATURE: GLP-1 Agonist-based Therapies: An Emerging New Class of Antidiabetic Drug With Potential Cardioprotective Effects

Melanie Sulistio, MD, Curtis Carothers, MD, Mandeep Mange, BS, Mike Lujan, BS, Rene Ofiveros, MD, and Robert Chilton, DO PART 2: GLP 1 Agonist-based Therapies: How do they reduce...


GLP-1 Agonist-based Therapies: An Emerging New Class of Antidiabetic Drug With Potential Cardioprotective Effects, Part 1

Melanie Sulistio, MD, Curtis Carothers, MD, Mandeep Mange, BS, Mike Lujan, BS, Rene Ofiveros, MD, and Robert Chilton, DO Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in the...


Conversion Chart for Humulin R U-500 Insulin Dose

When using a U-100 insulin syringe or a tuberculin syringe, use this handy U-500 Conversion Chart.


What Is Your Quality of Life Number?

  We have used this tool before, but we continue to get requests for it. So...


GLP-1's Function in Preserving B-cells

Associations between acute glucose lowering and improved acute insulin secretory responses suggest improved β-cell function. Comparing and assessing effects of pharmacological therapies used to control hyperglycemia on β-cell...


Formula for Converting A1c to eAG

  Converting your patients A1c result to their average blood glucose will give them a better understanding of their diabetes control. Most patients do not have a true understanding of what their A1c result means to their overall ...


Free Diabetic Foot Testing Kits

In support of World Diabetes Day...



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