Appetite-curbing Hormone Helps to Lose Weight
Obese patients with or without diabetes who took a minimum dosage of the appetite-suppressing glucagon-like peptide-1 hormone for at least 20 weeks lost more weight than people in control groups from a review of 25 studies in the British Medical...
Letter from the Editor #608
Over the past two years there have been numerous postponements of the enactment of Medicare's sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula for physician pay. The SRG was an original attempt to reduce the reimbursements to physicians for Medicare...
Test Your Knowledge #608: A randomized controlled trial was conducted to determine whether....
A randomized controlled trial was conducted to determine whether short-time, real-time continuous glucose monitoring (RT-CGM) has long-term beneficial glycemic effects in patients with type 2 diabetes who are not on prandial insulin. All of...
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FDA Grants Clearance for the Freestyle Test Strip to be Used with Insulet's OmniPod System
The FDA has notified the company that the new Abbott Freestyle test strip has been cleared for use with the OmniPod system. The companies are in the midst of updating the product label and will be communicating with customers once that has been...
NYC Subway Ads Warn People against Supersizing Meals
The New York City health department launched a subway advertising campaign to warn people about the health risks of eating supersize portions. The restaurant industry said it is being unfairly attacked, but the department's Gretchen Van Wye said...
Diabetes Prevention Program Can Deliver Modest Weight Loss
The U.S. Diabetes Prevention Program conducted a clinical trial in 2002 showing that modest weight loss through caloric restriction and increased physical activity reduced the incidence of diabetes in high-risk patients by...
Stem Cell Therapy May Reverse Diabetes
An immune regulator from healthy cord blood stem cells (CB-SCs) can "educate" the T cells of a person with type 1 diabetes (T1D), enabling the pancreas to produce insulin....
Insulin Therapy May Help Reduce Cardiovascular Disease
Diabetes patients are more susceptible to the development of atherosclerosis than non-diabetics and insulin therapy might help repair atherosclerotic lesions in diabetic patients....
Statins Can Increase Risk of Diabetes
Statin use in postmenopausal women is associated with a significantly increased risk of diabetes mellitus.
Bariatric Surgery Not a Cure for Diabetes
According to Dimitrios Pournaras, MD as reported in the BMJ, "Bariatric surgery (gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, or gastric banding) leads to complete remission in only about one third of patients with type 2 diabetes, and should be...
Weight Loss Is Not The Answer for Preventing Diabetes
Richard Kahn, PhD, who was the chief scientific and medical officer of the ADA for nearly 25 years stated at a conference that, "Community-based weight-loss programs have not been shown to be effective at reducing the incidence of diabetes, so...
Treat Depression and Diabetes for Best Results
Tackling depression and diabetes together in primary care is more likely to get both under control than approaching them separately....
How Exercise Benefits Insulin-Treated Obese Patients with Diabetes
Exercise counters adverse CV effects of insulin in overweight/obese patients with type 2 diabetes. Supervised mixed (aerobic and resistance) exercise is effective in improving A1c and cardiovascular disease risk related to insulin treatment in...
Difficult Patients Benefit from Team Approach
A team-based approach helps improve control of diabetes, coronary heart disease, and depression in the primary care setting by modifying both patient and physician behaviors....
Daily Aspirin Tied to Macular Degeneration
Daily aspirin use may protect the heart but hurt the eyes, boosting the risk of AMD....
Animas Corp Receives Warning Letter from the FDA
In a warning letter to Animas posted online by the FDA, the agency wrote that inspectors found Animas never reported on one complaint about serious patient injury and delayed reporting on two others....
Vitamin D: Too Much May Erase Heart Benefit
Low levels of vitamin D may confer a cardiovascular benefit, but too much vitamin D may have the opposite effect....
