Artificial Pancreas Closer to Reality See this week’s Item #1, ADA: Scientists Getting Closer to Artificial Pancreas.

By Sheri Colberg, PhD     It used to be common knowledge that you should stretch before and after physical activities for a variety of reasons.

With lawmakers and diabetes advocates ramping up the pressure, U.S. officials this week outlined a regulatory path for a preliminary version of the device….

Preventive treatment with metformin or lifestyle intervention in patients with type 2 diabetes reduced the cost of medical care, including costs for inpatient and outpatient care and prescriptions, compared with placebo….

Liraglutide, recently approved in the United States for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, has demonstrated its potential as a weight-loss drug for nondiabetic, obese patients….

Intensive dietary intervention and dietary intervention combined with an increase in moderate activity were both  superior to usual care in a real-world comparison of diabetic patients in the first 6 months after being diagnosed.…

Insulin pumps that automatically shut down when blood glucose hits a certain low level decrease the amount of time pediatric patients spend in hypoglycemia….

Training people with diabetes to teach other patients improves utilization of medications and results in lifestyle changes….

Type 2 diabetes patients with microvascular or macrovascular complications, or those taking certain monotherapies, are more likely to experience hypoglycemia and require outpatient hospital visits….

The perception that diet soft drinks are a benign alternative to highly sweetened beverages might be dangerously wrong….