According to a new study, people with diabetes appear to be at a significantly increased risk of developing dementia and the study also found that risk of developing dementia significantly increased for those with pre-diabetes.…

Compared with resistance training, aerobic exercise burns 67% more calories, research shows.…

Collectively, lifestyle factors, including not smoking, regular physical activity, healthy diet, moderate alcohol consumption, and normal body weight, are associated with a substantially decreased risk of developing diabetes, according to new research findings.…

The Labor Day holiday usually signals that the end of summer is here, and this is a good time to consider reviewing medications for diabetes care. If you are thinking about using some of the newer medications and would like to have the background to explain their use then be …

Edited by Trisha Dunning AM, RN, MEd, PhD, CDE, FRCNA and Glenn Ward MBBS, BSc, DPhil (Oxon), FRACP, FRCPath Mr. BG was referred to a diabetes multidisciplinary team by his GP. “Mr. BG is a 70-year-old man. Can you help me develop an appropriate management plan? He has had diabetes …

We continue this week with our Homerun Slides series on Pathophysiology in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes: Newer Agents with slides on Incretins and DPP 4 Inhibitors….

When we research the articles for the newsletter we often look for items that represent thought trends in diabetes management and if this week’s news is any indication then food choices are starting to garner more attention in managing and preventing diabetes. This can’t come too soon as a recent …

Fight with Your Underwear to Burn Extra Calories Some people go on a diet. Others go to the gym. But in Japan a more novel way of losing weight is fast gaining popularity — wearing “fat burning” underwear. A growing number of Japanese men and women are slipping into underwear which …

MPR Mobile App now offers a Drug Interactions Checker on the Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android platforms. The MPR Drug Interactions Checker includes a database of nearly 7,000 agents with over 3,800 detailed drug-drug, drug-alcohol, drug-food, and drug-herbal interactions. Interactions are classified by severity and also include …

Researchers have found that people who find it easy to keep fit may just have been born with the right genes, and their research also means couch potatoes previously dismissed as lazy could be missing the gene and so naturally find it more difficult to exercise. Researchers removed two genes …