For the past two months our well-written fitness guru Dr. Sheri Colberg has been discussing the reasons why activity improves your brain health. This week in part 3 of the series she reveals some final details and also lets us know that the NIH is announcing a big initiative to …

The prevailing statistics say that 74% of all diabetes patients have high lipids, 75% have hypertension, and that 56% of all diabetes patients have both conditions. If you take the time to read all of this week’s clinical newsletter you will learn why these statistics are so important. Our Clinical …

If you have never considered using a GLP-1 analog with insulin then you need to read this month’s update, and then think about how insulin and these analogs can be used together. While most of the the GLP-1’s are indicated with insulin, we don’t always think of using them before …

Steve Freed, Publisher, Diabetes in Control: When do you think you might be able to submit to the FDA? Joe Cook, Jr: Having developed a number of medicines, they all have their own character. It’s like children. They all come with different presentations. If the data from this study are very clear …

In this week’s Homerun Slides, Dr. Stanley Schwartz talks about the Natural History of Type 2 Diabetes and the possibilities for altering the usual development of the disease. He also discusses different strategies for different types of insulin resistance and the implications of this for therapy…. To download these slides in PowerPoint …

Rudy Bilous, MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP Dyslipidemia in type 2 diabetes Abnormalities of blood lipids are common in patients with type 2 diabetes, even when there is reasonable glycemic control. The characteristic dyslipidemia of type 2 diabetes consists of elevated very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) triglyceride (TG) levels, reduced …

In the 24-week study, improved HbA1c and cholesterol reduced the need for medications…   Type 2 diabetes patients are often advised to make dietary decisions that are high in carbohydrates and low in fat and protein. Increased carbohydrates lead to high postprandial glucose readings. Due to this, there is interest …

Lab models that develop diabetes and cancer and that lacked Sirtuin 3 also developed pulmonary hypertension… A University of Alberta team has discovered a protein that is important in the development of pulmonary hypertension which is caused by the narrowing of the blood vessels in the lungs due to excessive …

In patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease, the risk of diabetes was over three times higher in those with increased serum calcium levels… Calcium is needed for the release of insulin to respond to higher amounts of blood glucose. It is possible that if serum calcium is not well …

Deferoxamine delivered through the skin has the potential to prevent amputations… Stanford University School of Medicine researchers presented results at the American College of Surgeons Annual Clinical Congress showing they have developed a drug delivered via a skin patch that can heal wounds and prevent those wounds from reoccurring. Geoffrey …