Issue 377

Test Your Knowledge: "John Eckersly" Part Four of Eight

John Eckersly is a 61 year-old man who is a new patient. He works as a researcher and his only complaint is that he has gained 20 lbs over the past 25 months. He is single and eats out for most of his evening meals. He is relatively sedentary ...

Test Your Knowledge Issue 377

Ruth is a 76-year-old woman with insulin-requiring type 2 diabetes. She has many relatives with diabetes, and when she retired from her job as a banker at age 65, she was diagnosed with diabetes.  ...

Count Your Daily Steps for Motivation

Dr. Sheri Colberg, author of The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan: Living Well and Being Fit with Diabetes, knows that Walking is the most popular leisure-time physical activity among adults and this week she wants to help motivate your patients by...

Big Pharma's Wish List

Some of the world's largest pharma firms have set out what therapeutic areas and specific mechanisms are becoming more important to them, and which will be left by the wayside and we have the inside scoop. Click here to read Big Pharma's Wish List

Emergency Room Visits for Kids with Diabetes

Laura Plunkett., BA Psychology recently had a handout for Emergency Room Visits for Kids with Diabetes and the link was lost before many of you had a chance to read it. We have it for you again click here

Diabetics Have a 75% B1 Deficiency Leading to Vascular Problems

A thiamine (Vitamin B1) deficiency may be key to vascular problems for diabetic patients. FDA panel says Avandia offers benefits to people with type 2 disease, but…..

Statins Safe and Effective for Children With Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Statin therapy is safe and effective for children with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH), according to new findings.

Don’t Rely on Beta-Blockers to Reduce Blood Pressure

Research favors other drugs to control hypertension. While high blood pressure patients taking beta-blockers have a reduced risk of stroke of 16 percent to 22 percent compared with a placebo, the other hypertension drugs reduce that risk by an average...

Postprandial Hyperglycemia’s Related To Abnormal Variations In Blood Pressure

The researchers concluded that abnormal variations in blood pressure were associated with postprandial hyperglycemia, but not fasting hyperglycemia.

New Onset Diabetes More Likely With Metoprolol Than With Carvedilol in Heart Failure

New onset diabetes in patients with chronic heart failure is more likely to develop with metoprolol than with carvedilol, according to new findings

American Women Are Getting Fatter By At Least 20 Pounds

You are not the only one! It has become more socially acceptable for women to carry a few extra pounds, according to a new study. The weight of the average woman increased by 20 pounds, or 13.5 percent, during the period of 1976 to 2000.

Metabolic Syndrome In Kids Increases Adult Heart Risk

Adults who had so-called metabolic syndrome when they were children have a substantially increased risk of having heart disease in their 30s, researchers report.

Bone Cells May Be Key to Controlling Diabetes- New Possible Treatment

Researchers at Columbia University in New York have discovered that certain bone cells produce a hormone called osteocalcin, which influences beta-cell proliferation and controls the metabolism of blood sugar (glucose) and fat deposits through...

Reducing Inflammation Plays Key Role in Type 1 Diabetes Therapy

Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have found that a triple combination therapy consisting of both tolerance-inducing and anti-inflammatory properties is successful in abolishing adverse autoimmunity against insulin-producing...

Islet Cell Infusion Plus Exenatide Leads to Insulin Independence For Type 1’s

A new drug therapy for three months is showing great promise in returning patients with type 1 diabetes to insulin independence.

Researchers Develop Successful Insulin-Cell Transplants for Type 1 Diabetics

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found a way to overcome a major stumbling block to developing successful insulin-cell transplants for people with type I diabetes.

No Diet Foods for Kids-Can Lead to Obesity

A new study reveals low-calorie foods and drinks made to taste like high-calorie foods and drinks may actually lead to overeating and obesity. If you hope to curb the obesity epidemic in your children, don't feed them diet foods or drinks.

Top-10 Comparison of Diabetes Drugs Give One a Top Grade by Johns Hopkins

A type 2 diabetes drug taken orally and in widespread use for more than a decade has been found to have distinct advantages over nine other, mostly newer medications used to control the chronic disease, according to a study by researchers at Johns...

Secondary Failure of Glucose Control With Metformin, Sulfonylurea, or TZD’s Monotherapy

Which drugs are the ones to sustain good control, the longest?

Metformin and Body Weight

Where most other diabetes medications cause weight gain, metformin can cause weight reduction.