We are getting close to the end of our special Homerun Slides series from Dr. Stanley Schwartz, so it’s time to start looking at the steps we can take to help our patients prevent and manage diabetes including Screening, Diet and Exercise Considerations, and both the positives and negatives …

Anne Peters, MD, and Lori Laffel, MD, MPH, Editors Jane Lee Chiang, MD, Managing Editor Interdiction: Prevention of Beta-cell Destruction and Preservation for Those with Existing Type 1 Diabetes Jane Lee Chiang, MD, and Stephen E. Gitelman, MD Anti-Inflammatory Agents European Nicotinamide Diabetes Intervention Trial (ENDIT). Like DPT-1, ENDIT represented …

Over the past month, I’ve done 20 hours of CE including a full day becoming certified at immunizations. In our area, every pharmacy, doctor’s office and walk-in clinic offers flu shots, and as we move into the fall, the volume of flu shots given will grow exponentially. Even with the ease …

Urine Testing Can Screen for Cognitive Decline  See this week’s Item #2.

Top 10 Apps Doctors Recommend to Their Diabetic Patients Apps for managing diabetes and calculating the risk of cardiovascular disease are among the top 10 apps doctors recommend to their patients, according to researchers at Medical Economics.Top 10 Apps(pdf) 

  Kazano   Active ingredient(s): Alogliptin/metformin. Indication(s): Adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) when treatment with both alogliptin and metformin is appropriate.   

Peter Liu of the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute and colleagues at the University of Sydney checked insulin sensitivity in 19 non-diabetic men who slept about 6 hours a night during the workweek, but 10 hours on weekend nights. "By extending sleep to 10 hours a night versus 6 hours …

The average French competitor in the Tour de France lives about 6 years longer than their non-competitive French age-matched countrymen, Xavier Jouven, MD, a cardiologist at Hopital Europeen Georges-Pompidou, Paris, said at the European Society of Cardiology meeting. "We found a substantially and significantly lower mortality in French participants in …

The U.S. will continue to lead the trend of growing waistlines across the developed world, a new study predicted. Altogether, eight leading developed countries and Brazil will see an increase in obesity cases from about 167 million last year to 213 million by 2022. Brazil will be second to the …

DPP-4 inhibitor drugs appeared to have a null effect on risk for fatal and non-fatal cardiac events in two trials….