We are moving closer to the beginning of the Health Exchanges and it appears that many of the health plans will offer substantially smaller networks of hospitals and physicians than current health plans generally offer. Enrollees in such plans will have limited or no coverage if they seek care outside their plan …

  "OSENI" for Type 2 Diabetes   Active ingredients: Alogliptin/pioglitazone. Indications: As adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus when treatment with both alogliptin and pioglitazone is appropriate. 

Glucotoxicity Increases Risk of Cancer See this week’s Item #1. 

The Charcot Solution The Charcot Solution, a new website for medical professionals and patients with Charcot Foot, provides patients and surgeons access to detailed information pertaining to non-surgical and surgical treatment options for Charcot Foot. The website also includes a surgeon locator, which allows patients to search for surgeons specializing in …

A global population of patients with prediabetes that is three times the number of those with type 2 diabetes has led to intense competition between drug makers to treat the disease, according to a new report. The "Analysis of the Global Type 2 Diabetes Therapeutic Market" found that 15 new …

Research presented at the ADA Scientific Sessions showed the one-year drug discontinuation rate among type 2 diabetes patients was 89% in those taking a GLP-1 agonist, 82% in those who took a DPP-4 inhibitor and 84% in those treated with other diabetes drugs. The median time to treatment discontinuation was …

Improved economic conditions may have resulted in habits that led to diabetes, according to a study that examined the connection between the prevalence of diabetes and state-based per-capita income growth from 1950 to 1980. Children whose parents were previously poor were not biologically ready to handle the sedentary lifestyle and …

Sugar intake seems to promote the growth and spread of tumors in fruit flies through a few pathways….

High intensity physical activity in sessions less than 10 minutes can be as effective for losing weight as lower intensity exercise over a longer period of time….

New information on one of diabetes’ most debilitating complications…. Diabetic neuropathy affects approximately 60-70% of people with diabetes. For such a common problem that affects patients with diabetes, little is known about peripheral neuropathy. Patients with diabetes who are suffering from peripheral neuropathy talk of how terrible it is to …