Today I got to see a referral in an Endo’s office. The patient had been referred by the primary care physician because he was on high dose Lantus and not in control. I asked my intern what she recommended and the suggestion came back meal-time insulin, but the patient …

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A team of Binghamton University researchers are creating a 3-D printing process to build implantable tissues and organs to treat otherwise incurable diseases. They are trying to "grow" a functioning three-dimensional model of a pancreas and creating new cells that produce insulin. By creating this new printing technology, researchers can …

Older women who fit more minutes of heart-pumping exercise into their week will lose more body fat, a new study shows. Researchers found that postmenopausal women who got five hours of moderate-to-vigorous aerobic exercise every week — double the normally recommended amount — lost significantly more body fat within a …

For patients with type 2 diabetes, the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) or stroke is similar to treatment with insulin or sulfonylureas in combination with metformin. The researchers found that the risk of MI or stroke was similar for metformin + insulin and metformin + sulfonylureas (odds ratio, 0.98; 95 …

Mutations in the ankyrin-B gene cause fat cells to soak up more glucose, setting the stage for obesity and insulin resistance… Ankyrin-B was discovered more than 30 years ago by researcher Vann Bennett at Duke University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The gene plays a role …

Increased diabetes drug exposure may increase risk of adverse reactions in type 2 patients with NASH… Obesity increases the risk of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which occurs when there is too much fat in the liver. NASH is often asymptomatic and because testing for it requires a liver biopsy, many cases …

Treatment can decrease amount of total daily insulin dose due to insulin sensitizer properties… As the duration of diabetes diagnosis lengthens for patients, management of the disease gets more difficult. Insulin therapy is very effective in treating hyperglycemic events, however it carries unwanted side effects such as hypoglycemia and weight …

Glitazone antidiabetes drugs found to decrease incidence of disease…