In this week’s Homerun Slides, we present the second of four parts on glycemic control in hospitals, featuring a closer look at the NICE-SUGAR study and how guidelines were affected subsequent to this study….

I have a very good friend who is a Weight Watcher’s program leader and this week we were talking about how each and every new year, millions of people decide to take control of their own lives, and get fit and healthy. She was sharing how the attendance at her …

  Phase+ Line Launched for Diabetic Skin Care  PHASE+ FOOT THERAPY Naterra announced the launch of Phase+, a skin care line designed to address the cosmetic effects for patients with diabetes. The Phase+ line contains anti-microbial ingredients to help prevent skin care problems such as cracked heels and ultra-dry skin …

Indiana University Health iOS/Free My Healthy Habits, an American Heart Association/Listen To Your Heart initiative, supported by Indiana University Health, helps patients easily build healthy habits into their daily routines.

Many frustrated physicians are likely to abandon Medicare this year over its unpredictable funding despite the decision to delay for one year a cut in Medicare payments for doctors, according to medical associations and physicians. "The Medicare program has become unreliable and its instability undermines efforts by physicians to implement …

Novo Nordisk announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health has approved Ryzodeg® (insulin degludec/insulin aspart) for the treatment of diabetes. Ryzodeg is a soluble formulation of Tresiba (insulin degludec), a once-daily new generation basal insulin analogue with an ultra-long duration of action, and NovoRapid® (insulin aspart which in the US …

Prediabetic and diabetic men may have increased risk of sudden cardiac death. Results from recent research showed that men with pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes had a higher risk of sudden cardiac death (death from heart-related causes soon after symptoms start), compared to men with normal blood sugar levels. As …

Diabetes care costs increased with poorer control….

New guidelines from ADA include recommendations for a less stringent systolic blood-pressure target and greater individualization with regard to the frequency of blood glucose self-monitoring….

The new ADA blood glucose self-monitoring recommendations do not prescribe how many tests should be done but rather focus on the individual situations in which testing should occur….