In this week’s Homerun Slides, we have an update on the state of diabetes in the U.S, courtesy of the Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Wayne State University Medical School, in Detroit, Michigan. This is a great overview to either share with your colleagues or even show your patients …

Richard S. Beaser, MD, Edward S. Horton, MD and Catherine A. Mullooly, MS, RCEP, CDE   The weeks excerpt answers the following questions: How to adjust insulin for activity What is the "lag effect" Which snack foods are best for exercise

It seems like every day there is a new study that conflicts with the results released only a couple of days before. Over the past 3 months we have had 5 articles discussing whether diet drinks increase caloric intake, appetite and diabetes risk. The last article just a week ago looked …

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Healthy people in a laboratory study who slept for no more than six hours a night showed suppression in genes that regulate metabolism as well as the immune system and stress response, which may increase their risk of diabetes, obesity and heart disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences …

A survey by LocumTenens.com showed 60% of US physicians expressed willingness to join an Accountable Care Organization, with pay-for-performance cited as the preferred payment model. The survey involved 1,416 physicians from a variety of specialties. BeckersHospitalReview.com

A team of American scientists has successfully reprogrammed insulin-producing cells in an effort to discover a new way to fight diabetes. They treated human islet cells with a chemical that inhibits a protein that puts methyl chemical groups on histones, which leads to removal of some histone modifications that affect …

A new study finds that those using incretin mimetics have a 2-fold increased risk of acute pancreatitis….

Recently published study does not provide the basis for changing treatment….