The study investigated the comparative costs of two different insulin regimens in type 2 diabetes based on data from the GINGER study, which investigated the efficacy and safety of an intensified insulin regimen.…

As the month of January draws to a close it is that time when New Year’s Resolutions start to unravel. Many of our patients tried the newest fad diet or exercise program for a whopping 30 days and when they didn’t get the results that the TV commercials promised decided …

Steve and I are constantly going to physician offices to talk about in-office diabetes education and the value for patients of coming in for monthly classes or group appointments. We even spent three months last summer giving you the tools to set up these programs in your office and get …

Bydureon Approved for Sale in the US FDA approves Bydureon as adjunct treatment of type 2 diabetes. In a letter posted to the Food and Drug Administration website, the FDA said that Bydureon was approved as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type …

One holy grail of medical technology research has been the possibility of measuring patients’ blood glucose levels indirectly, avoiding the universally hated needle pricks. Not only will this make millions of diabetics jump with joy, it will certainly increase their testing compliance, leading to better management of the disease.

BioChip to Detect Glucose in Saliva One holy grail of medical technology research has been the possibility of measuring patients’ blood glucose levels indirectly, avoiding the universally hated needle pricks. Not only will this make millions of diabetes patients jump with joy, it will certainly increase their testing compliance, leading …

A study found that fewer diabetes patients are being hospitalized for foot or leg amputations, though they’re still at higher risk of losing a limb than the general population. Among diabetes patients ages 40 and up, hospital discharge rates for nontraumatic lower-extremity amputation fell an average of 8.6% per year …

But, it’s better than it once was. That figure was up slightly from the previous year’s 20%, but is still smaller than it was in 1996, when the top 1% of healthcare spenders accounted for 28% of total healthcare expenditures. Average per capita spending for each person in that top …

Adrian Cameron from Deakin University, study co-author, stated that, “We knew that higher hip circumference was protective against metabolic diseases such as diabetes as well as death…. However, we did not know that taking waist and hip circumference into account separately (as opposed to using the waist-to-hip ratio) would reveal …

Our own killer T-cells in the human body which help protect us from disease may inadvertently destroy cells that produce insulin.…