This past week we had our PharmD candidate, Lauren Self, scour the information from the AACE meeting in Phoenix, in order to prepare the best articles for you to review. The new AACE guidelines that Dr. Alan Garber delivered during the meeting focused on a tailored approach with increased use …

CAD Risk for Pre-Diabetes Comparable to Diabetes See this week’s Item #3.

  BUZZY for Pain Free Injections  Buzzy® is simply a small vibrating bee with a unique ice pack. Put it near any sharp, itching or burning pain, and using natural pain relief, Buzzy desensitizes the body’s nerves, dulling or eliminating sharp injection pain. In the same way that rubbing a bumped …

Quality of Life Test, Updated  Ninety percent of type 2 patients do not know what their A1c results mean: do your patients know? We are repeating this tool both because we have had many requests and because it has proven to be such an effective tool for motivating patients to better …

Most American adults aren’t meeting the federal physical activity recommendations for both aerobic exercise and muscle-strengthening activity, according to new government statistics. About 79% of adults don’t meet the physical activity guidelines that advise getting at least 2½ hours a week of moderate-intensity aerobic activity such as brisk walking, or …

A new published study has found that beta-cell dysfunction, not merely insulin resistance, may explain the early stages of type 2 diabetes in Asian Indians. One-thousand two-hundred sixty-four individuals without known diabetes in the Diabetes Community Lifestyle Improvement Program in Chennai, India, had a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test, with …

One in five patients with a mean age of 19 scored in the depressive range on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scale. In turn, depressive symptoms were associated with poorer adherence to treatment (F=3.56, P

Dr. DeFronzo presented the "Diabetes Update – 2013," focusing on preventing diabetes….

A recent FDA-approved device is proving to be a promising method for detecting neuropathy in patients with diabetes….

Prediabetes patients show similar heart risks as those with diabetes….