Dr. Cyrus Desouza, MBBS, gives us some insight into how to promote better care and lifestyle changes in our patients. Improving patient participation and encouraging them to care for their own disease is key. Peer support has been known to improve diabetes patients’ health as well as group clinics, peer counseling, and having diabetes …

Dr. Cyrus Desouza, MBBS, discusses Shared Medical Appointments (SMA’s), how he has been able to use them in his practice for over ten years, and some of the benefits, including peer-to-peer counseling. He also answers questions about the challenges, including meeting certain parameters, which some medical offices who might want …

Dr. Cyrus Desouza, MBBS, reveals the most interesting new thing about diabetes treatment. Between the 1930’s and the year 2000 there were basically two diabetes drugs developed including insulin and metformin. That has changed dramatically and soon, patient treatment could involve much more tailored care….

We know that type 1 diabetes results from T-cell–mediated destruction of beta-cells in the pancreas. So, to prevent type 1 diabetes from developing, we need to stop that destruction. In addition to our quest to eliminate type 1, we need to preserve the remaining cells as well as generate new …

  In this week’s set of Homerun Slides, we delve in to what happens when blood sugar levels increase, the prevalence of prediabetes in our culture today, and some of the possible strategies and research investigating the prevention of diabetes, including the Diabetes Prevention Program….

Anne Peters, MD, and Lori Laffel, MD, MPH, Editors Jane Lee Chiang, MD, Managing Editor Prevention of Beta-cell Destruction and Preservation for Those with Existing Type 1 Diabetes Jane Lee Chiang, MD, and Stephen E. Gitelman, MD Current therapies and technologies offer a means to live with type 1 diabetes …

We are moving closer to the beginning of the Health Exchanges and it appears that many of the health plans will offer substantially smaller networks of hospitals and physicians than current health plans generally offer. Enrollees in such plans will have limited or no coverage if they seek care outside their plan …

  "OSENI" for Type 2 Diabetes   Active ingredients: Alogliptin/pioglitazone. Indications: As adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus when treatment with both alogliptin and pioglitazone is appropriate. 

Glucotoxicity Increases Risk of Cancer See this week’s Item #1. 

The Charcot Solution The Charcot Solution, a new website for medical professionals and patients with Charcot Foot, provides patients and surgeons access to detailed information pertaining to non-surgical and surgical treatment options for Charcot Foot. The website also includes a surgeon locator, which allows patients to search for surgeons specializing in …