In this week's Homerun Slides, understanding the behavior of insulin and other injectables to decrease incidences of hyperglycemia.

Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP): VIP was originally isolated from the porcine small intestine in the early 1970s and found to consist of 28 amino acid residues, with a C-terminal α-amidation showing structural similarities to other members of the glucagon superfamily of peptides [18]. VIP is formed by processing of 149-amino acid proVIP and is highly conserved as illustrated by human, porcine, and rat VIP increased glucose tolerance with a reduction of circulating glucose.

The standard treatment for uncontrolled uterine bleeding has been emergency care where a woman undergoes transfusion dilatation curettage and then a hysterectomy. This is a severe procedure with a long recovery time and long-lasting complications. Over the past few years, a lot of women have been treated with endometrialhydrothermal ablation, a much less invasive procedure with …

A1C reductions seen in therapy combined with metformin

Can glycated albumin provide better positive predictive value than A1c in incidence of diabetic nephropathy?

Canagliflozin can decrease blood sugar and provide control, but what other metabolic effects can it provide?

What benefits can be obtained from duodenal mucosal resurfacing?

Study finds improvement in pain relief and sleep patterns

Friend of Diabetes in Control and frequent guest author David Kliff, Diabetic Investor, shared his views on some of the news coming out of EASD. As always, his ideas are thought-provoking. We reached out to some of our Advisory Board members to get their responses to David’s piece, and they provided additional strong viewpoints for your consideration.

Here's another test of your graph-interpreting skills! Follow the link to see this graph at full size and indicate the parameter that best describes Curve 4. 1. Insulin Secretion 2. Postprandial glucose 3. Fasting glucose 4. Insulin Resistance