I just finished up a two day advisory board meeting for an insulin manufacturer. We looked at some new products and studies as well as new ideas about diabetes care. Part of our discussion had to do with the increased use of EMRs (electronic medical records), EHRs (electronic health records) and …

Anne Peters, MD, and Lori Laffel, MD, MPH, editors Jane Lee Chiang, MD, managing editor   Introduction Jeremy Hodson Pettus, MD, and Steven Edelman, MD   The discovery of insulin over 90 years ago remains one of the greatest success stories in the history of medicine.

  This week, we wrap up our series of Homerun Slides on Quality Measures, with summaries of the commonalities and differences across both cholesterol and diabetes measures, as well as a comparison between the two….

This week I happened to run into a physician friend I had not seen for a while. While we were chatting, I noticed that he must have gotten at least six pages from his answering service. Each time he had to call in and listen to the operator describe the …

  Liptruzet® – A Lipid-lowering Combination  The FDA has approved a new lipid-lowering combination tablet (Liptruzet) that includes atorvastatin and ezetimibe. The tablet is available as a once-daily tablet containing 10 mg of ezetimibe combined with 10, 20, 40, or 80 mg of atorvastatin, can be used to treat elevated …

Researchers from Sweden have demonstrated that brown cells as well as "brite" cells exist in the neck region in adult humans. The "classical" brown fat tissue, common in newborns but previously not thought to be present in adults, has potent energy burning capacity. "If we can find out how to …

Type 2 diabetes patients who go to bed late and sleep in late showed higher BMI and A1c rates, had more depressive symptoms, and were more likely to require insulin. Patients who sleep late also tend to eat more calories at dinner, which may lead to negative metabolic effects, researchers …

The risk of hypoglycemic events during hospitalization was 2.5 to three times higher in older black men with diabetes, but not in women, compared with other patients ages 65 and older. Higher hospital hypoglycemia rates were also seen in patients ages 75 and older and those with a medical history …

Joint research by the Japan Diabetes Society and the Japanese Cancer Association has found that people with diabetes run a 20 percent higher risk of contracting cancer….

After extending incubation period for cultures, non-tuberculous mycobacteria cutaneous infection was found on woman injecting insulin through clothing….