With all the press last week about Avandia and heart disease, patients have been on the phones to their prescribers asking for a change. Stephen Freed, Publisher, Diabetes Educator and Pharmacist, worked with Dr. Richard K. Bernstein, MD, to find the...

With the current New England Journal Article on Avandia and it’s increased risks for cardiovascular problems, I believe we have missed the whole point of the article.  Publishers comments:

Dr. Sheri Colberg, author of The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan: Living Well and Being Fit with Diabetes, has her own take on what Dick and Steve are recommending. Be sure to read What Does It Take to Break the Cycle, and find out more about the best...

Test Your Knowledge Issue 366

Postprandial glucose levels play an important and often overlooked role in cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes patients.

In overweight patients, fish oil supplements and regular aerobic exercise reduced body fat and improved cardiovascular and metabolic health, according to the results of a new study.

Results from a current study showed that, Valsartan reduces high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) levels in prediabetic, hypertensive patients with metabolic syndrome.

Diabetic patients exhibit a higher prevalence of aspirin resistance at a dosage of 81 mg/day than do nondiabetics with coronary artery disease.

Spending 500 dollars a year to improve diabetes care is a sound investment, according to one of the first studies to examine the clinical and economic impact of quality improvement on diabetes care.

Stem cells taken from the umbilical cords of newborns can be engineered to produce insulin and may some day be used to treat diabetes, US and British researchers say.

We have guidelines on how to mange diabetes for the outpatient and the hospital patient, but we have no guidelines for treating people in nursing homes and the results of a study showed that only 38 percent are at goal.

A large clinical study meant to test the heart safety of the diabetes treatment Avandia may be in jeopardy as a result of recent reports of the drug’s risks.

GlaxoSmithKline Plc is expected to be hit with a wave of lawsuits from users of the diabetes drug Avandia, plaintiff's lawyers said last Wednesday.

With the incidence of type 2 diabetes and its complications among young people on the increase worldwide, aggressive measures are needed to treat and prevent the disease, two diabetes experts say in the current issue (May 26) of The lancet.

The results of this study suggest that the use of certain types of hormonal contraceptives during the 5 years leading up to a pregnancy may be associated with the risk of developing gestational diabetes.

Results from a six-month extension study have shown that impairment in glycemic control after one year of diuretic-based combination treatment is reversible by switching to treatment not involving a diuretic, in this case, an ACE inhibitor and...

New study shows that nearly a quarter of all African-Americans still believe that high blood pressure means that a person is tense or anxious

People who develop diabetes late in life often suffer from a range of diabetes-related complications, and their life expectancy is shorter than that of nondiabetic individuals of the same age, a new study shows.

Patients diagnosed with sleep apnea had more than two-and-one-half times the risk of developing diabetes and increases a person's risk of having a heart attack or of dying by 30 percent compared with those without the nighttime breathing disorder