Sometimes the simplest things can be the hardest to do correctly, and nowhere else could it be more devastating than when a glucagon kit is not used properly. In this week’s Disaster Averted, see what could happen when a medical professional gets ahold of a simple-to-use device and overthinks it. …

Terry Gregg, CEO, Dexcom, talks about the increases in CGM accuracy which Dexcom is working towards, as well as the cooperative efforts they are involved in with working towards an effective artificial pancreas. He says that one of the goals of Dexcom is to “eliminate fingersticks” and they are getting …

  In this week’s series of Homerun Slides, we take a more detailed look at the most recently approved SGLT2 inhibitor, dapagliflozin, and then explore some of the other SGLT2 inhibitors which are on the horizon….

Rudy Bilous MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP   Islet structure and function Insulin is synthesized in and secreted from the β-cells within the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. The normal pancreas has about 1 million islets, which constitute about 2-3% of the gland’s mass. All of the islet …