Special GLP-1 Featured Test Your Knowledge #647:
A physician wants to prescribe a glp-1 to his patient. He calls the pharmacy to ask if there are any precautions in the use of this medication.
Kidney Stones in Relation to Obesity and Diabetes
Amanda Zell, Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate, Mercer University
A kidney stone is a solid mass developed from crystals that separate from the urine within the urinary tract.
Letter from the Editor #647
Years ago, just out of pharmacy school, I worked in a nursing home pharmacy where we supplied the oral and IV medications for several facilities. When we could not get an IV started in a patient we used a drug called hyaluronidase to increase...
Zamzee Tackles Childhood Obesity
Zamzee Tackles Childhood Obesity
Eighty Percent of Type 2s on Insulin Suffer Hypos
The Global Attitudes of Patients and Physicians survey found that four out of five people with type 2 diabetes who take insulin to help control their condition have experienced self-treated hypoglycemia with 36% experiencing an episode within the...
Chewable Metformin One Step Closer to FDA Approval
The FDA has authorized an abbreviated new drug application, which means no further clinical trials are needed to demonstrate the safety or effectiveness of the product. Boston Therapeutics plans to market the new formulation of the generic drug...
Hawaii Ranked Second Least Obese State
Each year, the Trust for America's Health reports disease and weight conditions within each state. This year it included future potential health statistics, calculating the increase the states have already had in the past, and then applying it to...
Diabetes Screening May Not Reduce Death Rates
Without the knowledge of what to do once diagnosed, nothing really happens....
It's How You Walk That Benefits Type 2's
Interval-walking training improved glycemic control, weight loss, and insulin sensitivity, for individuals with type 2 compared with continuous walking with equivalent energy expenditure in a small randomized trial....
Silence Is Deadly for T2D with Hypos
Arrhythmia may play a role in hypoglycemia-related deaths....
Vitamin K1 Reduces Risk of Type 2 by 50 Percent
Adding foods or supplements rich in vitamin K1 (phylloquinone) may help protect against type 2 diabetes....
Omega-3's Can Reduce Inflammation in Obese People
Daily supplements of omega-3 fatty acids may reduce levels of inflammatory markers in the fat tissue of obese people....
Exercise Can Coax the Liver to Produce HDL
With a little exercise and dieting, overweight people with type 2 diabetes can still train their fat cells to produce a hormone believed to spur HDL cholesterol production....
Women Diagnosed at Acute MI 3 Times More Like to Die within 3 Years
Women who are diagnosed with diabetes at the time of an acute myocardial infarction are three times more likely to die over the next 3 years as are similar women without diabetes....
Links between Heart Disease and Diabetes
The findings that, more than 20% of patients diagnosed with coronary artery disease went on to develop new-onset diabetes, should prompt regular screening of cardiac patients for the disease....
New Novel Approach Makes Insulin Response More Predictable
Adding hyaluronidase (PH20) to insulin improves control, shortens the onset of the action of insulin and could provide better control....
Peptide Predicts Diabetes, CV Disease in Women
High levels of the peptide proneurotensin are associated with an increased risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and death in women, but not necessarily in men....
Early Insulin Delays Diabetes, Origin Revisited
For patients with impaired glucose tolerance or early diabetes, use of insulin glargine was the best predictor of maintaining a lower A1c level over 5 years, according to a subanalysis of the ORIGIN trial....
Duloxetine Beats Pregabalin for Diabetic Neuropathy
The largest trial ever conducted for the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain (DPNP) has shown which treatment works best....
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