March 3, 2020 : DCMS #491

DISASTERS AVERTED — Near Miss Case Studies

Handling Accidental Insulin Injection

TOP STORIES — Diabetes News and Research

New CV Outcomes Trials Examine Linagliptin and Glimepiride Among Patients With High CVD Risk

CREDENCE Trial – Overlooked Benefits In Preventing CVD 

Long-Term Lactation Benefits for Gestational Diabetes Patients 

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For many years pediatricians and other health care experts have been encouraging new moms to breastfeed their newborns. They talk about the decreased gastric problems as well as increased immunity, and the bonding between mother and child. All of these reasons are focused on the child, but what about the mother? For many of these women who work and have busy lives, breastfeeding is an extra effort they may not want to make.

Now our intern, Deonna Andrews, PharmD Candidate 2020 FAMU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has a great feature on why moms have their own healthy benefit to breastfeeding.

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We can make a difference!

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Dave Joffe

Editor-in-chief

I am a diabetes educator and have built a small business helping senior citizens care for their animals with diabetes. It seems that most of the pets I see are small dogs and their owners use insulin to manage their animals’ diabetes.

The CAROLINA and CARMELINA Trials offer further information regarding the CV safety of linagliptin and glimepiride among patients with T2DM, high CVD risk, and decreased renal function.  

SGLT2 Inhibitors and their use for preventing cardiovascular diseases. 

Breastfeeding has many known long-term benefits, which include the reduction of the risk of a major disease state.