In this week’s Homerun Slides, we continue to focus on insulin therapy in the treatment of type 2 diabetes with a look at the natural histories of type 2 and beta cell failure in type 2 diabetes …

In this week’s Homerun Slides, we take a look at the current therapy for type 2 diabetes…

Every day, more and more of our patients start on insulin. In past years, most of these patients were started on basal insulin by their primary care prescriber and then titrated up. However, when it came to adding on meal time insulin, they we’re often referred to an endocrinologist. Now …

A 59 YOF is recently discharged from hospital after an allergic reaction to an anesthesia induction agent. She was placed on high-dose steroid for the reaction while she was in the hospital. Patient had completed her steroid tapering dose 2 months prior to her visit to endocrinology clinic today due to high blood glucose (a1c 8.9%). Past medical history included: hypertension, hyperlipidemia, atrial fibrillation, obesity and diabetes for 7 years. She was well controlled on metformin 1000mg BID before...

Our Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate from LECOM College of Pharmacy, Christina Dowd, has reviewed a new book from the ADA and found that it is a good read for you. See what she has to say.

In addition to lifestyle, a new study suggests birthweight may play a role in a person’s risk for developing type 2 diabetes… A recent Harvard study was published in BMJ involving nearly 150,000 men and women without diabetes at baseline who were followed for 20-30 years. Researchers prospectively looked at …

Increased risk for prostate and pancreatic cancer associated with use of drug… A recent study published in JAMA looked at long-term data from nearly 200,000 diabetes patients to revisit the debate of whether pioglitazone significantly increases the risk of bladder cancer in patients or not. In the process, researchers also …

ReShape Dual Balloon helping patients to achieve life-changing weight loss without surgery… A new non-surgical weight loss option is now available. The FDA has approved ReShape Integrated Dual Balloon System which is the first non-surgical weight loss procedure for people with mild-to-moderate obesity. ReShape is a dual balloon mounted on …

Coffee may play a role in decreasing inflammation and thus have an association with lower diabetes incidences… A recent study sought to investigate any associations between coffee drinking, diabetes development and measured inflammatory and oxidative biomarkers. Scientists have suggested there is an inflammatory process involved in the development of type …

Insulin resistance associated with a lower regional cerebral glucose metabolism, worsened memory performance… A recent study published in JAMA on July 27th evaluated 150 cognitively normal male and female adults with an average age of nearly 61 years old. Data collected from the patients included cognitive testing, fasting blood glucose …