The new year is finally here which means the Affordable Care Act started this past Wednesday. The start-up has been fraught with computer problems, misrepresentations, and half-truths from all sides of the political spectrum. As a medical professional, however, the real question is, will patients be better off? Last Thursday, …

Personalized Discussion Guide for Your Next Visit to the Doctor  Prepare your patients for their next office visit. Provide this printout pdf form for your patients and have them circle the questions they don’t understand or want to discuss further, or just add their own. A great way to get …

iHealth BG5 Monitor This new meter can be synced to your patients’ smartphones and/or tablet computers. The meter keeps tabs on how many strips they’ve used and tells them when to scan the code on a new vial. The BG5 works with the Gluco-Smart app for iPhone or Android. It …

The AACE has released its first annual list of the most frequently searched endocrine medical conditions. The top 10 searched endocrine conditions were: (1) Thyroid (2) Diabetes (3) Women’s endocrine health (4) Parathyroid disorders (5) Low thyroid hormone levels (hypothyroidism) (6) Men’s endocrine health (7) Adrenal glands (8) Nutrition (9) …

The results of a new study showed that type 1 diabetes patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy had greater prevalence of cerebral microangiopathies than those without retinopathy and control group subjects. "The associations between cerebral microbleeds and peripheral microvascular function in skin [have] not been reported before and support the hypothesis …

Artificial sweeteners sucralose, acesulfame potassium, and the two combined seem to generate the same neutral reaction on the appetite-reducing hormone GLP-1 as water. After an overnight fast, each subject consumed either 240 ml of water alone or equivalently sweetened with 1) 52 mg sucralose, 2) 200 mg AceK or 3) …

University of Missouri School of Medicine researchers have received three U.S. patents for methods that cured type 1 diabetes in mice via a major discovery….

The American Diabetes Association has released their annually revised Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes for 2014, with an emphasis on individualized treatment of diabetes…. 

The "need to knows" for diabetes care…. 

Data presented at the World Diabetes Congress revealed only 29% of diabetes patients were asked by their health care providers to offer input in making treatment plans….