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Draft recommendations from the USPSTF call for diabetes and blood glucose screening for people 45 and older and younger adults with risk factors. The guidelines, updated from 2008, are similar to those made by other medical groups and include recommendations for diet and exercise interventions for at-risk patients. The new …

As diabetes develops, we currently waste the first ∼10 years of the natural history. If we found prediabetes and early diabetes when they first presented and treated them more effectively, we could prevent or delay the progression of hyperglycemia and the development of complications. Evidence for this comes from trials …

Type 2 diabetes patients who followed an egg-rich diet did not show worse lipid levels than those who had lower egg consumption, according to research presented at the EASD meeting. Data also showed that an egg-rich diet was tied to better appetite control and satiety at three months. The study …

Medicare Cracks Down on Hospitals with High 30 Day Readmission Rates A total of 2,610 hospitals in the U.S. will see their Medicare payments docked in fiscal 2015 for having excessive numbers of patients return to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. Some of the hospitals will lose 3% of their income …

Currently, Medtronic offers glucose monitoring systems that deliver information including glucose levels, trends and warnings to either an integrated insulin pump or a separate receiver. However, the company would like to take advantage of the ease and convenience of smart phone technology. Medtronic is not offering any forecast on when …

An analysis revealed type 1 diabetes patients on long-acting insulin attained better A1C, gained less weight and had a reduced risk of severe hypoglycemia than those on immediate-acting insulin. Long-acting insulin was more costly but significantly more effective than immediate-acting insulin, long-acting insulin analogs are probably superior to intermediate acting …

FDA Approves New Once-Weekly GLP-1  See this week’s Item #1.

Researchers found little change in the prevalence and incidence of diabetes between 2008 and 2012, following drastic increases in both numbers between 1990 and 2008. "We are now for the first time showing that (those rates are) slowing down," said Dr. Ann Albright, who directs the Division of Diabetes Translation …

A six-year study of people with type 2 diabetes found that intensively lowering blood pressure had a long-lasting effect in preventing heart attacks, strokes and deaths. But intensive blood sugar control didn’t produce those benefits, the researchers found. For the study, investigators followed nearly 8,500 participants of a completed diabetes …

Data presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes meeting revealed a fixed-dose insulin degludec/liraglutide combination resulted in greater blood glucose control in type 2 diabetes patients compared with either monotherapy. The insulin degludec/liraglutide combination treatment resulted in a greater proportion of subjects with blood glucose values within …