Happy Holidays from all of us at Diabetes In Control.   As I was reviewing the articles for this week I got a call at the pharmacy from a 40 year old patient asking me to refill her two diabetes drugs: metformin and glyburide. As I was processing the prescriptions …

Diabetes and Disney  Lilly Diabetes and Disney have announced that their custom books for children and families with type 1 diabetes are now available online. The digital books explore real-life challenges and stories of children with type 1 diabetes participating in sports activities, birthday parties and other social events. These …

  Asante Snap Insulin Pump  Asante Snap’s benefits include: prefilled cartridges, automatically fills tubing (autoprime), 25% lighter than the leading pump, never needs to have the battery changed or charged, uses glass cartridges scientifically proven to keep insulin at high quality, plus first-time users were able to complete critical tasks …

New data presented at the World Diabetes Congress showed type 1 diabetes patients who developed diabetic neuropathy had significantly lower corneal nerve fiber length at baseline than those who did not develop the condition during a three-year follow-up period. Evaluating corneal nerve fiber length may be a useful means to …

Children who had an increase in body mass index before age 4 had a greater likelihood of developing metabolic syndrome at 12 years of age than their peers according to a new study. Researchers also found that boys who experienced an increase in BMI at younger ages were more likely …

Female type 2 diabetes patients younger than 45 years were more than three times as likely to experience early menopause than their healthier peers, a study indicated. Researchers also found the mean age of menopause in women with diabetes was 48.5 years, compared with 50.1 years in those without diabetes. …

It has been 30 years since today’s standard of care was introduced….

Metformin plus Cycloset shows significant CVD risk reduction for type 2 diabetes patients in trial….

Slightly higher BP in older adults is acceptable…. On December 18, 2013, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published new hypertension guidelines which come out of the report of panel members appointed to the eighth joint national commission (JNC 8). Hypertension, which can lead to CVA, MI, and …

A new treatment for lipodystrophy may be on the horizon….