Teresa Pearson, RN, CDE, talks about how pay-for-performance has worked in Minnesota, commenting that, initially, many providers were skeptical, but that it is now clear that the system does impact diabetes care for the better. This change, along with the introduction of medical homes Pearson believes, will result in a …

Each week in our newsletter we bring you multiple articles on the reasons for lowering patients’ A1c and controlling their glucose levels. In addition we often include studies that encourage us to use insulin sooner and more aggressively. Anytime we get more aggressive we increase the risk of hypoglycemia. Sometimes …

Nikolaos Tentolouris, Nikolaos Katsilambros           Symptoms and signs of hypoglycemia in Type 2 diabetes    The symptoms of hypoglycemia do not differ between people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

In this week’s set of Homerun Slides, our topics include IV Insulin Protocols, Considerations when Converting from IV to Subcutaneous Insulin, and the Basal-Bolus Principle: Adding Mealtime Control….

As I write this, I’m on the last day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and if you switch on any television news show you are bound to see all the new TV’s, computers and phones. However what you may not know is that the digital health …

First SGLT-2 First-in-Class Drug to Treat Diabetes Under Scrutiny See this week’s Item #3.

    By Sheri Colberg, PhD     Based on past research, the top reasons why people drop out of exercise programs are the following (in no particular order): 1) lack of time, 2) exercise intensity too high, 3) orthopedic injury, and 4) lack of enjoyment. I will address each …

HAPIfork Eating too fast, and not chewing long enough can lead to poor digestion and poor weight control. The HAPIfork is an electronic fork that can monitor patients’ eating habits. The HAPIfork provides precise information about eating schedule and alerts patients with the help of indicator lights when they are …

U.S. researchers looked at 1,218 6- to 11-year-olds included in the 2009-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and found that only 38.3% met both daily physical-activity and screen-time recommendations. More than 70% of respondents got the recommended one hour or more of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily, while 53.5% had …

Americans have shorter average life expectancy than people in other wealthy nations and are more likely to engage in unhealthy behaviors such as consuming high-fat, high-calorie diets, according to a report. The U.S. fared poorly on metrics such as obesity and diabetes, infant mortality and teen pregnancy when compared with …