A genome-wide study uncovered five genetic variants that may contribute to blood pressure specifically in African-Americans.

Diabetes patients taking NovoLog((R)) (insulin aspart [rDNA origin] injection) can now use the insulin in their pump for up to six days following the FDA approval of a labeling change. Novo Nordisk announced last week that this makes NovoLog((R)) the first and only rapid-acting insulin with this extended in-use time.

Anyone who defends the pharmaceutical industry has to be ready to hear, over and over and over, about how much it spends on sales and marketing versus R&D. This is thought to be a telling point about where the priorities really are. I’ve addressed this one several times, and my …

Effective Dietary Practices of Active People with Diabetes: Part 2 (Supplementing with Carbohydrates) By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM Supplementing with Carbohydrate Before, During, and After Exercise Carbohydrate supplementation is an effective performance enhancer whether or not you have diabetes. In general, taking in extra carbohydrate is not usually necessary for …

The controversy about Lantus and cancer continues to heat up. Leading experts are coming forward to share their opinions on the meta-analysis. It is too bad that the lay press will never get these expert opinions to our patients. Last week Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics published an outstanding editorial by three …

Proving the Value of Drug Research Often our patients feel that pharmaceutical companies no longer do research and only spend money on advertising, dinners and conferences. This graph shows the opposite is true. Proving the Value of Drug Research  

Major depression doubles the risk of incident diabetic foot ulcers, according to the results of a large, prospective, population-based cohort study…… 

Diabetics are more prone to oral fungus disease. 

New research has identified a genomic fragment, called a transposon, or “jumping gene,” that diminishes the activity of the diabetes risk gene in both mice and humans……

Whatever we have been doing to help patients control their blood sugars over the last 100 years has not worked, most patients are still out of control……