Anatoly Butko $4.99 iOS   Blood Glucose Monitor is advanced and easy-to-use tool to watch for your blood glucose value on a daily basis and included tools for recording, editing, exporting data, calculating and drawing statistics and reports.

Last Monday night I was delivering a CE on MTM and Med Errors to a group of pharmacists in Tampa. As I was delving into the reasons for MTM (Medication Therapy Management), I was enlightening the younger pharmacists on ways that our profession has changed over the past 30 years. One …

This week we are excited about our exclusive interview with Dr. Janice Smiell, CMO at Alliqua BioMedical, Inc. Dr. Smiell and her team have been doing some groundbreaking work on battling chronic wounds using placental biomaterials. Steve Freed:  Welcome, Dr. Janice Smiell. Let’s begin by having you tell us a …

A short series, courtesy Dr. Stanley Schwartz, on discussing SGLT-2 inhibitor therapy with your patients

Charcot neuroarthropathy is a serious and poorly understood condition associated with rapid destruction of bones and joints, and resulting in bone fragmentation. It is almost as if the foot implodes for no reason. Patients who deteriorate to that severe state are often those who have no idea what is happening …

A secondary analysis of participants in an exercise-in-diabetes trial found that between those whose fitness did and didn’t improve, there was an almost identical decrease in HbA1C levels in the blood, about 0.26 percentage points. Both groups also succeeded in shrinking their waistlines and lowering body fat percentage, although fitness …

According to a study, 133,000 of the 184,000 deaths blamed on the consumption of sugary drinks were related to diabetes. Researchers found that Mexico had the highest mortality rate from sugary drinks, with an estimated 405 deaths per one million adults, followed by the U.S. with an estimated 125 deaths …

Non-aspirin Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) Drug Safety Communication. FDA Strengthens Warning of Increased Chance of Heart Attack or Stroke. More info here.

Recent study reported a significant increase in all-cause mortality associated with the use of metformin in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Researchers have looked at #diabetes and two measures of Twitter engagement to better understand how health information can spread on social media…