JAMA to report next week that insulin as a second medication may cause harm. Information embargoed until next week.

The 25 Lowest Carb Containing Fruits(pdf)  When it comes to comparing which fruit has fewer carbohydrates it’s not necessarily an easy process since fruits come in all sizes, shapes and serving portions. Share this tool with your patients so they can make better decisions. Do you know the lowest carb …

HypoMap – A new tool to prevent hypoglycemia  At the ADA meeting next week, diabetes management software company Glooko and the Joslin Diabetes Center will launch HypoMap, a new patient-facing platform to help increase patients’ awareness of hypoglycemic events. The platform will include an app for patients with diabetes that will …

The bears can eat up to 58,000 calories a day without becoming overweight and don’t suffer heart attacks or diabetes. A study of the animal’s DNA has revealed they have evolved to cope with a high fat diet that would prove disastrous to a human. Half their body weight consists …

According to new research, patients who review physicians online tend to be overwhelmingly positive: 56.8% give their physicians four stars (out of five) or better. But not all patients are as happy with their physicians. Below are the 10 happiest and 10 unhappiest cities in the Happy Patient Index. Happiest: …

A study by Belgian doctoral researcher Wouter De Haes (KU Leuven) and colleagues provides new evidence that metformin, the world’s most widely used anti-diabetic drug, slows aging and increases lifespan. In the experiments, the researchers tease out the mechanism behind metformin’s age-slowing effects: the drug causes an increase in the …

Ten percent of patients were newly diagnosed with diabetes while being treated for their heart attack…. 

Teens who under-slept by an hour a night were more likely to be heavier, have a larger weight circumference, and to have greater insulin resistance…. 

An experimental gene-based diet helped a group of slimming volunteers increase their weight loss by a third…. 

Overweight and obese type 2 diabetes patients who followed an intensive lifestyle intervention had a lower risk of incident depression and attained better physical function than those who received diabetes support and education….