From Dave Joffe, Editor-in-chief, Diabetes In Control: Most of us are used to standing on our feet for long hours each day, whether it’s behind a pharmacy counter, going from exam room to exam room, or lecturing in a classroom. At the end of the day nothing feels as …

No matter how you want to analyze it there is an impeding explosion in diabetes care and also in how much it will cost. Part of this is addressed by paying clinicians to deliver patient interactions via the internet. Although early studies seem to show an improvement in the care …

Have you had patients come to your office with the latest and greatest thing for "curing" diabetes? Not a day goes by without someone showing me a new way to lose weight and fix their diabetes. But the real question is, are these fixes really working or is the problem …

With this week’s Homerun Slides, we cover topics including: Importance of Early Treatment; What Anti-VEGF is Best for DME; Intravitreal Steroid Implants; and "Does Good Blood Glucose Control Even Matter Once We Start Using anti-VEGF Agents for DR/DME?"…. To download this set of Homerun Slides in PowerPoint format (.ppt) just use …

David Levy, MD, FRCP Patients in the Intensive Care Unit Hyperglycemia, whether associated with known diabetes or not, carries a poor prognosis in critically ill patients through multiple mechanisms, including vascular disease, polyneuropathy, an increased tendency to infection, dyslipidemia, and abnormal anti-inflammatory and coagulation responses. Consistent near-normoglycemia has therefore been a …

  Type 1 and type 2 diabetes (T1D and T2D) both present with hyperglycemia and have similar chronic complications.

Dietary recommendations introduced for 220 million US and 56 million UK citizens by 1983 did not have sufficient supporting evidence from randomized controlled trials… National dietary guidelines were introduced in 1977 and 1983, by the US and UK governments, respectively, with the ambition of reducing coronary heart disease (CHD) by …

Using these 4 new sites for testing blood sugars will allow patients’ finger tips to get back to normal…

In the meta-analysis, women also had twice the excess risk of fatal and nonfatal vascular events, compared with men with type 1 diabetes… Australian researchers have done a meta-analysis to provide reliable estimates of any sex differences in the effect of type 1 diabetes on risk of all-cause mortality and …

Life expectancy may be reduced after bariatric surgery for patients with a BMI more than 62 kg/m2 … Super obese patients with diabetes may not get the same benefits from bariatric surgery as those who with BMIs less than 62, according to published research. “For most patients with diabetes and …