The FootMate System  Foot care is a daily challenge, but the podiatrist-recommended FootMate® System makes optimal foot health easy. The complete foot care system cleans, soothes, stimulates and massages patients’ feet every time they shower. The FootMate System is a brush and specially formulated gel that goes in the bath …

Afrezza Inhaled Insulin Approved by FDA Panel for Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes See our feature article, FDA Panel Approves Inhaled Insulin, Again.

Frozen Ape Pte. Ltd. iOS free CPR Tempo provides audio and visual cues to aid the timing of chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Timers are also provided for rhythm checks after defibrillator shocking and for epinephrine administration. 

It seems like every week our patients come to us with a new diet plan or a 1 minute exercise routine that will make them drop 25 lbs in the first week. It amazes me that these patients won’t pay a 20 dollar copay for a diabetes med but they …

Multiple studies have shown that patients who are overweight or obese are more likely to have impaired pulmonary function, obstructive sleep apnea, and the obesity hypoventilation syndrome. These problems are in addition to the more recognized ones such as diabetes and heart failure. The best thing we can do for …

  In this week’s Homerun Slides series, we review the benefits of even just a little weight loss for your patients including the lessening of sleep apnea, and we discuss the lessening of diabetes symptoms with bariatric surgery….

The Pancreas The pancreas is situated behind the posterior wall of the abdomen It can be divided into: Head: located within the duodenal curve Body connected to the head through a slight constriction (neck) Tail representing tapering of the body as it extends to the left approaching the gastric surface …

Wolters Kluwer Health Lippincott Williams & Wilkins iOS free with subscription Academic Medicine, the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, serves as an international forum for the exchange of ideas, information, and strategies to address the major challenges facing the academic medicine community as it strives to carry …

House Votes to Delay Medicare Pay Cut and ICD-10 Rollout.

This Monday ends the official enrollment period for The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, and both the Obama White House and the Congressional Budget office are reporting that over 6 million people have enrolled in the state and federal exchange programs. This is actually more enrollees than were predicted in …