In a warning letter to Animas posted online by the FDA, the agency wrote that inspectors found Animas never reported on one complaint about serious patient injury and delayed reporting on two others….

Low levels of vitamin D may confer a cardiovascular benefit, but too much vitamin D may have the opposite effect….

Last week I was walking in the OTC department in front of the pharmacy and I noticed a box of Fastin on the shelf. I was surprised by this as I knew that the RX version was phentermine 37.5 mg and could not believe that you could now buy it …

Edited by Frank J. Snoek and T. Chas Skinner Diabetes in Adolescents   2.3 Individual Interventions (Part 1 of 2) Despite the benefits of these family-based programs, they pose a challenge for working with older adolescents if their parents do not come to clinic or for young people in families …

In this week’s set of Homerun Slides, we discuss whether it is possible to delay the onset of type 2 DM and explore the effects of some medications on obesity…

Welcome back from the holiday season. This past week has been a real workout. Everyone who put health on the back burner last month seems to be showing up in our offices, wanting immediate service and quick fixes. In addition the “Resolution” patients are coming in looking for fast and …

By Sheri Colberg, PhD Just when everyone was already confused about what types and amounts of training people with diabetes should be doing, along comes yet another study to muddy the waters some more. This latest exercise research was undertaken by faculty at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and appeared …

Lower maternal serum concentrations of 25-hydroxy-vitamin D (25-OH D) during pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of offspring developing type 1 diabetes during childhood, according to a study. Using radioimmunoassay, 25-OH D levels were measured on late pregnancy samples from 109 women whose offspring developed type 1 diabetes before …

A new study claims that people who drink at least three cups of black tea each day could be lowering their risk of developing conditions such as diabetes and heart attacks. It is already believed that regularly drinking tea helps to prevent the blood from clotting and manages blood pressure. …

MySentry Wireless Monitor Medtronic Inc. has announced it received regulatory approval for the first remote glucose monitor that will let parents check the blood sugar of a diabetic child sleeping in another room. The mySentry monitor, which costs about $3,000, works with Medtronic’s MiniMed Paradigm Real-Time Revel System, an insulin …