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  The Beddit Sleep Monitor tracks patients’ sleep accurately without any disturbing wearable sensors. Patients can sleep directly on the sensor and it will measure heart rate, respiration, sleep cycles and sleep time. Beddit Sleep Tracker is based on ballistocardiography (BCG), a measure of ballistic forces on the heart. During …

  Novo Nordisk has launched the NovoRapid PumpCart, the first prefilled pump cartridge with an insulin analog that has been specifically designed for insulin pumps. The new treatment solution contains NovoRapid (insulin aspart) — a rapid-acting insulin. The 1.6 ml cartridge was developed in a non-exclusive partnership between Roche Diabetes Care …

Last week, my daughter was out for a 100 mile bike ride and at mile 78 she was coming down a bridge on Madera Beach at about 27 mph when a car cut in front of her to make a right turn. She braked very hard, hit some gravel and …

Every week we see patients who can’t tolerate metformin, and we often have to chose a less effective but more expensive medication for their diabetes. We try decreasing the dose and then titrating back up, and even that does not work. For years, pharmaceutical companies have been trying to find …

This week, we continue our exclusive short interview series with NuSirt CEO, JC, in which he talks about some of the groundbreaking work his company is doing to increase the effectiveness of metformin.   Steve Freed, Publisher, Diabetes in Control: What actually brought you to taking this compound and combining it …

This week, we’re taking a break from our regularly featured section on avoiding medication mistakes to bring you this exclusive interview series with NuSirt CEO, JC, in which he talks about some of the groundbreaking work his company is doing to increase the effectiveness of metformin. Steve Freed, Publisher, Diabetes …

In this week’s Homerun Slides, Dr. Stanley Schwartz tackles the topic of the best blood glucose levels for a hospital setting. He presents data from several different studies including First DIGAMI and the Portland Diabetic Project, as well as several others in his discussion of this important subject… To download …

Rudy Bilous, MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP Symptoms, signs and classification Diabetes is one of the most common causes of peripheral neuropathy, a term that encompasses a heterogeneous group of disorders (Figure 17.1). In population-based surveys, up to one-third of patients with diabetes have evidence of peripheral neuropathy but …

Last night I was in the pharmacy and a 22-year-old man came in with prescriptions for insulin, syringes, glucose meter, test strips and lancets. He had come by motorcycle and while he was waiting for his prescription he never took off his helmet or jacket even though it was 75 …