Bant iOS app for Your Patients  This is an easy to use application from the University Health Network that has graphs and trends to show the user’s blood glucose control. This application utilizes four different color circles for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and bedtime. The users can drag down the colored circle to …

The ARS Food Surveys Research Group analysis looked at data on US snacking habits, taken from interviews with more than 5,000 adults 20 years or older. The latest data show that the empty calories from snacks account for about 32% of the daily calories consumed by women and about 31% …

Although electronic health records can result in more time spent at computer workstations rather than patients’ beds, the use of an iPad increased efficiency and provided better patient care, researchers found. When 115 internal medicine residents were given Apple iPads, almost three-quarters of them reported the device saved them an …

Consumption of certain types of chocolate has been linked to some favorable metabolic associations with blood pressure, insulin sensitivity and cholesterol level. Beatrice A. Golomb, M.D., Ph.D., with the University of California, studied 1,018 men and woman without known cardiovascular disease, diabetes or extremes of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels …

Dapagliflozin improves glycemic control, stabilizes insulin requirements, and reduces weight without increasing major hypoglycemic episodes when added to insulin therapy in patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus….

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that men with type 2 diabetes treated with insulin without a history of CVD were at higher risk for major cardiovascular events compared with men who had a history of CVD….

Long-term treatment with metformin is safe for preventing or delaying the development of type 2 diabetes….

Fasting blood glucose may be a biomarker of depression in elderly patients….

Insulin resistance, overweight/obesity, and fatty liver commonly occur together but are independently associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes….

Talking with diabetic peers who’ve gotten their blood sugar under control helped other African-American diabetes patients bring down their own levels a full point, more than those who were offered $100 to reduce their A1c 1 point or even $200 to reduce their A1c 2 points….