This combination of peanut butter and chocolate from Level Foods is the perfect balance of salty and sweet with no compromise on the classic peanut butter cup taste. Just 3g of sugar and only 6gms carbs per a piece. It’s also low glycemic and gluten-free. The Peanut Butter Cup …

Novo spent a lot of time on studies and research on liraglutide as a weight loss product. Saxenda was approved in December 2014, and they are starting to gain market traction. The question comes to mind — if you give a diabetes drug to an non- or pre-diabetes patient, do …

We often take insulin for granted and reach in the fridge to start a patient on this drug without a lot of hesitation. But have you ever considered what it takes to make insulin, or how subtle differences in production can have big consequences? This week, we start a new Homerun …

In this week’s Homerun Slides, we begin a new series from Dr. Guillermo Umpierrez, Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, which will update you on the latest insulin developments, and also delve into exactly how these insulins differ in their effects…. To download the complete set in PowerPoint (.ppt) format …

A patient came to us on reasonably high doses of basal bolus insulin, using Levemir and NovoLog flex pens. He stated that he had been using insulin for a few months and was referred for more management assistance from his provider. He was seen by a CDE to review his …

David Levy, MD, FRCP Insulin Pump Treatment (CSII) First used at the end of the 1970s, insulin pump therapy is standard treatment for type 1 diabetes, although use varies between countries (e.g. about 1–2% in the UK, probably more now; about 25% in USA, up to 40% in Norway). Only rapid-acting …

FDA Approves a New Long-Acting Insulin. See this week’s Item #1. FDA requires label warnings to prohibit sharing of multi-dose diabetes pen devices among patients. FDA Announcement

U.S. health regulators have approved Sanofi's diabetes drug Toujeo, a more potent follow-up to the drugmaker's top-selling insulin product Lantus.

In a comparison of a fiber-intake focused diet versus the more complex AHA-compliant diet, both cohorts lost weight, although the AHA dieters lost slightly more… In a randomized trial, a diet that focuses solely on increasing fiber intake works about as well as a more complex American Heart Association (AHA)-compliant …

Women whose mothers smoked while pregnant are two to three times as likely to be diabetic as adults…. Fathers who smoked while their daughter was in utero also contribute to an increased diabetes risk, but more research is needed to establish the true effect. Michele La Merrill, assistant professor of …