Female, 57 years of age, type 2 diabetes, metformin 1,000mg twice daily for 12 years, came in with weakness, anemia, tingling of fingers and toes. Her A1C had always been below 7%. Some in my office thought she had developed diabetic peripheral neuropathy. I could not disagree, but I also knew metformin can cause vitamin B12 deficiency.

Patients have long told us that their grandmother lived to 100 and had diabetes for 40 years with no problems, or that no one in their family has had it before so how could they have gotten it? These patients usually become our worst nightmares because they don’t take their …

In part 3 of this Exclusive Interview, Eran Bashan, CEO of Hygieia, explains about managing patients on basal bolus therapy.

In this week's Homerun Slides, the use of genotyping in understanding the mechanisms of diabetes.

Disturbances in pancreas/islet morphology in diabetes: Type 1 diabetes (T1DM) is classically associated with autoimmune destruction of beta cells. However, the pancreas is more broadly affected, with overall pancreas size being decreased in individuals with this form of diabetes, and loss of exocrine tissue occurring close to areas of immune infiltration.