This week we bring you Part 3 of our Homerun Slides on Hospital Safety, homing in especially on Managing Patient Safety: High-Risk Medications in the Hospital Setting….

There has been an increased use of GLP-1 analogs in patients with diabetes over the past two years as the advent of daily dosing has made medication adherence simpler and more clinicians are comfortable with the available choices.

The use of GLP-1 analogs is up again this year as clinicians become more comfortable with the class of drugs and more patients are learning about the benefits of these analogs from their practitioners, friends, and websites and blogs on the internet. Many of those patients come to us under …

ADA/EASD Issue New Management Guidelines (see this week’s Item #2) and FDA Rejects Diabetes Drug Alogliptin (see this week’s Item #10).

“Calculate” Free App for Medical Professionals by QxMD, 4/5 stars “Calculate” offers a large library of formulas and calculators for the healthcare professional. It has both an iPad and iPhone/iPod interface also for Blackberry and Android phones. In addition to traditional formulas used for labs, kinetics, etc., Calculate includes a …

A new study has suggested that a carbohydrate-restricted diet with some individuals eating three whole eggs per day and others eating an equivalent amount of egg substitute improved HDL measures. Participants in the study were followed for 12 weeks. The group eating whole eggs experienced an improvement in HDL measures …

Funding for Medicare will be exhausted in 2024, according to the annual report from the program’s trustees, but federal health officials note that the program would run dry eight years sooner if not for the Affordable Care Act. The good news is that the 2024 projection remains unchanged from last …

Data just out from the CDC show that only 13.4% of adults in the U.S. have high cholesterol, according to data collected in 2009 and 2010. A decade earlier, 18.3% of American adults had high cholesterol. High cholesterol starts at 240 milligrams of cholesterol per deciliter of blood. Having high …

Two published Phase III studies reveal that ultra-long-acting insulin degludec considerably reduced rates of….

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) have issued a joint position statement emphasizing patient-specific treatment of hyperglycemia in persons with type 2 diabetes….