At what age should doctors be tested for competence? Follow the link to offer your opinion!

If diabetes were a country how big would it be? Federal Assistant Health Minister Ken Wyatt from the IDF says that “if diabetes diagnosed and undiagnosed was a country, it would be the ___th largest country in the world.” The ten countries with the largest population in the world are China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Russia and Japan. If those with diagnosed diabetes and undiagnosed diabetes were a country, which country’s population would it be closest to? Follow the link to answer!

New study suggests that in hospital patients with T2DM, premixed insulin provides similar glycemic control as a basal-bolus insulin regimen.

Oftentimes when an insulin using patient is admitted to the hospital they are kept on the same insulin product and regimen they arrived with. For many patients this works well but for those using mixed insulin there appears to be an increased incidence of hypoglycemia. This could be because of …

Researchers approximate that 387 million people worldwide are living with diabetes mellitus, whose prevalence will reach 10% of the world’s adult population (592 million) by 2035.

In this week's Homerun Slides, the effectiveness of Lixisenatide when added to basal insulin, and strategies for avoiding or minimizing the GI effects of GLP-1.

Each week we try to bring you the latest in diabetes care, and some of you often email me about the Homerun Slides and how they often explore therapies with drugs that are not available to use in practice. This week’s Slides look at studies using a yet-to-be-approved GLP-1 analog …