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Motor Vehicle Accidents in Patients with Diabetes and Tight Glycemic Control: Uncontrolled diabetes can impair the ability to drive, and lead to serious complications. Careful diabetic control is a standard of good practice, but in this study, patients with the tightest control of glucose levels as measured with HbA1c levels …

Selenium Shields Against Diabetes: Scientists have found evidence that older men with higher levels of selenium are less likely to suffer from dysglycemia, or improper blood-sugar metabolism. Researchers studied 1,162 French adults for nine years, checking their levels of selenium and monitoring whether they developed blood-sugar problems. According to their …

Impotence Plus Heart Disease Ups Death Risk: Men with heart disease who also complain of erectile dysfunction die sooner than other male heart patients, researchers report. They found that men who had both conditions were twice as likely to die from any cause and twice as likely to have a …

FDA Delays Mannkind Diabetes Inhaled Insulin Approval: The FDA has delayed the approval of an inhaled insulin drug and device from MannKind. The FDA asked MannKind to provide updated data on the safety and efficacy of its Afrezza device and additional information about the inhaler used to deliver the insulin …

The Sooner, the Better Results with Metformin: A recent study has revealed that beginning Metformin early in life could increase the success rate of the drug manifold in patients suffering from diabetes. Co-author Gregory A. Nichols believes that starting the drug early preserves the body’s own ability to control blood …

Definitive Link Found between Drinking Soda and Obesity, Diabetes: Many people know that drinking soda is bad for you. At the very least, the extra calories and sugar (mainly high fructose corn syrup, or HFCS) don’t do great things for your waistline. Now, new research has shown that drinking soda …

Glycated Hemoglobin Tests See Increasing Use: Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) testing is one of the success stories of point-of-care diagnostics, and an area that will experience higher growth rates than other POC tests as a result of expert recommendations, new cases and booming mail-in test sales, according to the new report …

Beware of Daylight Saving Time: On average, people go to work or school on the first Monday of Daylight Saving Time after sleeping 40 fewer minutes than normal. And recent studies have found there’s a higher risk of heart attacks, traffic accidents and workplace injuries also on the first Monday …

David Joffe, BSPharm, CDE, FACA Amylin, Lilly and Alkermes received a Complete Response Letter from FDA for Exenatide Once Weekly. New drug to be called BYDUREON (exenatide for extended-release injectable suspension).  

  Ninety-two Percent of Pre-Diabetes Patients Are Unaware of their Status See this week’s Item #4. FDA Panel Sees User Errors with Insulin Pumps. See this week’s Item #12.