Special Edition - Best of 2010

Special Edition: Best of 2010

As I look back over the past year, it has been quite a ride for all of us in healthcare and in diabetes. Congress passed the historic healthcare reform law but will it stay? Part of that bill reduced payments to physicians by 24% and...

Diabetes Disaster Averted #2: Insulin Pump Mystery

"One of our pump-using patients reported a sudden increase in blood glucose lasting several days. No ketones were present, but the blood glucose was chronically elevated (300 mg/dl plus). Changing infusion sets didn't fix it. Rotating to a...

Establishing Starting Basal and Bolus Dosing

Instructions...

Blood Test Anticipates Diabetes 10 Years in Advance

A blood test that could predict those at risk of getting diabetes 10 years earlier than current diagnosis has been developed by scientists....

A1c Test for Diagnosis Not Perfect: Study

The limited sensitivity of the A1C test may result in missed or delayed diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, whereas the use of current OGTT criteria will fail to identify a high proportion of individuals with A1C >6.5%. Further studies and discussion...

Special OTC Feature: Are over-the-counter Omega-3 products as effective as Lovaza®?

by Jason Besser, 2010 Doctorial Candidate, LECOM Bradenton School of Pharmacy   With the rising prices of medications today, many individuals ...

Special OTC Feature: Niacin ER: A viable alternative to Niaspan?

by Katy E. Wallis, University of Florida, 2010 Pharm D Candidate With the economy at its lowest point in decades, prescription drug costs as high as ever, and the "donut hole"...

ADA and AHA Issues Statement Urging Caution for Primary-Prevention Aspirin in Patients with Diabetes

A new scientific statement on the use of aspirin for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes recommends that low-dose aspirin is "reasonable" in those with no history of vascular disease but who are at an...

Debate Rages on HbA1c for Diabetes Diagnosis

An international expert panel's recommendation last year that glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) should be the primary test for diagnosing Type 2 diabetes has met considerable resistance, with some researchers and...

Culprit Identified in ACCORD Study

It was not hypoglycemia from intensive control or intensive control itself that caused the increased deaths in the ACCORD study. This information will not be reported on every TV station as the original study results were, so...

A1c's Over Five Percent Increase Risk for Stroke

Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), even at levels considered in the "normal" range, emerged as an independently significant predictor of heart-disease events, stroke, and death over more than a decade in an analysis from the...

The Serotonin Power Diet

by Judith Wurtman, PhD, and Nina Frusztajer, MD

America's Silent Killer: Oprah and Dr. Oz Want to Save Your Life

By...

Key to Reversing Type 1 Diabetes Discovered

Doctors at Eastern Virginia Medical School's Strelitz Diabetes Center have been stalking the culprit responsible for Type 1 diabetes. Now, they are one step closer....

Test Your Knowledge #507: At his routine evaluation, a 62-year-old man who has had diabetes for 10 years reports....

At his routine evaluation, a 62-year-old man who has had diabetes for 10 years reports a 6-week-old right foot ulcer that has not completely healed despite local dressing and oral antibiotics. He is obese and also has mild osteoarthritis,...

Test Your Knowledge #506: A 58-year-old woman who has had Type 2 diabetes for 15 years is evaluated at a routine...

A 58-year-old woman who has had Type 2 diabetes for 15 years is evaluated at a routine follow-up examination. She has coexisting hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and background retinopathy but no other known microvascular or macrovascular...

Joslin Identifies Source of Beta Cell Damage

Scientists at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA, led by Principal Investigator Robert Stanton, M.D., have discovered that high blood glucose levels damage a key enzyme that guards insulin-producing beta cells. Their surprising finding...

Test Your Knowledge #503: Which is not a cause of discrepancies between glucose meter numbers...

Which is not a cause of discrepancies between glucose meter numbers and the average reflected by A1c results?

American Diabetes Association's New Clinical Practice Recommendations Promote A1c as Diagnostic Test for Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes

Faster, easier test could help reduce number of undiagnosed with diabetes and pre-diabetes.

Significant Type 2 Diabetes Breakthrough

Amyloid could "directly poison" pancreas cells. Shedding light on how a malfunctioning protein helps trigger Type 2 diabetes could one day offer the chance to halt the damage, say scientists….