Insulin the Basics  Starting on insulin can be difficult and confusing for your patients. This handout will provide some basics your patients need to know that are sometimes missed in diabetes education. Share this with your patients on insulin. Insulin – The Basics (pdf) 

UniStrip1 Test Strips for OneTouch® Ultra® Meters  For your patients who for financial reasons do not test as often as you would like, this could be a solution. UniStrip1™ test strips were cleared by the FDA for use with the LifeScan® OneTouch® Ultra®, Ultra®2, UltraSmart® and UltraMini® meters. Those currently …

Childhood obesity carries an estimated price tag of $19,000 per child in lifetime direct medical costs, when compared to the medical costs to those of a normal weight child. When the estimate was applied for all 10-year-olds in the U.S. who are obese, the medical costs over a lifetime for …

Resveratrol was associated with significant improvements in fasting glucose, insulin and A1C levels in patients with diabetes, according to a meta-analysis. However, researchers did not observe the same benefits in those who did not have diabetes. From eleven studies with a total of 388 subjects researchers concluded that resveratrol significantly …

Consumption of carbohydrate-rich foods has fallen 5% during the last four years while protein-rich food consumption has risen 7% and will continue. Unlike the Atkins diet fad of the mid-2000s, this demand shift appears to have staying power as consumers holistically try to increase the ‘good fats’ in their diet …

It appears to offer better and more durable control of diabetes than medical therapy….

Review of 2013 prescriptions by the Express Scripts shows that diabetes medications trounce all others in terms of annual patient spend on traditional medications….

Not only may an intensive program of diet, exercise, or both delay progression from prediabetes to diabetes, but among women, it may also lower CVD and all-cause mortality…. 

Failure to lose ‘baby weight’ may carry long-term risk for diabetes and heart disease…. 

The use of aleglitazar does not appear to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in diabetic patient….