Friday I was in Dallas to talk to care and case managers from Blue Cross of Texas. The topic was Hospital Readmissions and the impact on the coordination of care continuum. The focus of the presentation was how to keep patients from returning to the hospital. One of the most …

  "Body on a Chip"  To accelerate the development of new therapies, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine is leading a unique project to develop a "body on a chip." The goal is to build a miniaturized system of human organs to model the body’s response to …

New guidelines from the European Society of Cardiology and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes state that if a patient doesn’t have diabetes on the basis of an HbA1c reading, then he or she should be screened with an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). The new guidance also …

People with type 1 diabetes were less likely to get a university degree and earned less money than their peers who didn’t have the condition, a Swedish data study showed. Both men and women with type 1 diabetes had lower odds of getting a university degree than matched controls without …

Low testosterone levels predicted a greater risk of acute myocardial infarction in Swedish men with type 2 diabetes, researchers found. Higher total testosterone levels were associated with a 25% reduced risk of acute MI in that group. But no such relationship was seen in men without diabetes or in women …

A higher calorie breakfast consisting of protein and fat has a healthier impact on patients with type 2 diabetes…. 

A decreased risk in stroke post-MI is seen among diabetic patients over a 10-year span…. 

A correlation may exist between asymptomatic episodes of ventricular arrhythmias and silent hypoglycemic episodes…. 

Evening feeding leads to impaired insulin sensitivity in mice…. 

Both canagliflozin and sitagliptin are found to increase beta-cell function, yet….