Szilard Voros, MD, discusses what he found the most interesting at the 2013 ADA and singles out the new SGLT2 inhibitor class of drugs as especially exciting. However, he cautions that they are very new and only time will tell regarding any safety aspects. He is intrigued by the concept …

Szilard Voros, MD, talks about one of the most surprising aspects of the DPMP testing. Several hundred patients participated initially with their providers. The baseline panel results were given to their doctors who used the results to work with their patients. After the second test, results indicated that around a …

Years ago, when a patient was referred to the pharmacy for instructions on how to start insulin, we would add red food coloring to the saline making it easier to see the exact amount of liquid in the test syringe. Over time, I have thought about this idea and why …

Over the past month, I’ve done 20 hours of CE including a full day becoming certified at immunizations. In our area, every pharmacy, doctor’s office and walk-in clinic offers flu shots, and as we move into the fall, the volume of flu shots given will grow exponentially. Even with the ease …

Urine Testing Can Screen for Cognitive Decline  See this week’s Item #2.

Top 10 Apps Doctors Recommend to Their Diabetic Patients Apps for managing diabetes and calculating the risk of cardiovascular disease are among the top 10 apps doctors recommend to their patients, according to researchers at Medical Economics.Top 10 Apps(pdf) 

  Kazano   Active ingredient(s): Alogliptin/metformin. Indication(s): Adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) when treatment with both alogliptin and metformin is appropriate.   

Peter Liu of the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute and colleagues at the University of Sydney checked insulin sensitivity in 19 non-diabetic men who slept about 6 hours a night during the workweek, but 10 hours on weekend nights. "By extending sleep to 10 hours a night versus 6 hours …

The average French competitor in the Tour de France lives about 6 years longer than their non-competitive French age-matched countrymen, Xavier Jouven, MD, a cardiologist at Hopital Europeen Georges-Pompidou, Paris, said at the European Society of Cardiology meeting. "We found a substantially and significantly lower mortality in French participants in …

The U.S. will continue to lead the trend of growing waistlines across the developed world, a new study predicted. Altogether, eight leading developed countries and Brazil will see an increase in obesity cases from about 167 million last year to 213 million by 2022. Brazil will be second to the …