One day a 31-year-old woman who had recently been hospitalized and subsequently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes came into our diabetes clinic for education. She had been discharged from the hospital less than a week prior to coming to our clinic. She was frustrated when she arrived, as her blood sugars had become increasingly elevated after leaving the hospital. She had called her primary care physician and he instructed her to increase her dose of long-acting insulin. Still, her blood sugars had not improved.

In this week's Homerun Slides, periodontitis treatment and therapy results.

In part 5 of this exclusive video, DIC publisher Steve Freed concludes his discussion with Dr. George Bakris about the use of an at-home kidney test as one method of early capture of possible kidney disease.

For many years it was speculated that beta cells, much like neurons, were postmitotic and that their turnover in the mammal was minimal or zero. Over the last two decades, studies in mice have suggested a more dynamic picture, wherein beta-cell mass can change in response to physiologic states such as growth, pregnancy, and obesity.

This past week I got to catch up with our good pal Phil Sutherland. Many of you know that Phil has worked hard to grab worldwide attention for athletes with diabetes. He is the founder of Team NovoNordisk, a Tour de France quality professional cycling team. All of the team …

New alert issued for type 2 patients taking saxagliptin (Onglyza, AstraZeneca) and alogliptin (Nesina, Takeda).

Marked increase found at age 12.

Six-month regimen of 30 mg zinc sulfate once daily found effective compared with those on placebo, according to study.

Are some leisure-time activities more helpful than others in lowering blood glucose?

Team Novo Nordisk’s Italian sprinter, Andrea Peron, rode in the main breakaway at the 107th edition of Milan-San Remo for the second consecutive year. The 293-kilometer race is the longest one-day race in the world.