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By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM

Answer and Critique

  Ingrid Dean, PharmD Candidate David Joffe, BSPharm, Preceptor   Florida A & M University College of...

"The quality of life is determined by its activities."                                                ...

Humulin U-500 insulin once again is on my agenda, as I had three calls from hospital pharmacists and educators asking for a method to convert and write orders for patients on pumps and for sliding scale use. Many of our syringe or pen...

  New Tool U-500 Conversion Sheet - This easy to use sheet gives you the method to convert patients from U-100 insulin to Humulin ...

A 74-year-old man who has had Type 2 diabetes for 20 years is evaluated for possible initiation of insulin treatment. He takes metformin 1000 mg twice daily and glyburide 10 mg twice daily. He recently began measuring his preprandial blood...

Metformin appears to reduce the risk for pancreatic cancer in patients with diabetes, whereas insulin therapy appears to increase the risk, according to the results of a large case-control study. 

According to the American Diabetes Association, 8% of the US population has diabetes. Approximately 2% are still undiagnosed and unaware of their condition, and...

A vaccine to prevent heart attacks could transform the treatment of heart disease. The new vaccine works by reversing the narrowing of the arteries, a leading cause of heart attacks.

From the results of a new study, it was concluded that poor glycemic control appears to be an independent risk factor for low HDL cholesterol in Type 2 diabetes. 

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah have uncovered new information on the notion that sugar "feeds" tumors. The findings also have implications for other diseases such as diabetes....

A team of researchers in Sweden, found that people classified as obese and those with pre-diabetes have raised levels of a protein called SPARC, that can cause tissue scarring.   

A retrospective analysis based on outpatient data from across Ontario, showed that the risk of dying or being hospitalized with heart failure, but not of MI, is lower among older diabetic patients taking pioglitazone (Actos, Takeda...

This study was done to determine whether the association observed between poor glycemic control and low HDL cholesterol in Type 2 diabetes is dependent on obesity and/or hypertriglyceridemia.

A vaccine to prevent heart attacks could transform the treatment of heart disease. The new vaccine works by reversing the narrowing of the arteries, a leading cause of heart attacks.

French researchers report, that with good graft function, islet transplantation can achieve long-term metabolic control in patients with brittle Type 1 diabetes.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved safety labeling revisions to warn of the risk for serious effects from Chantix and DiaBeta.