A natural compound found in the body, called nicotinamide mononucleotide, or NMN, is found to help restore normal blood sugar metabolism.…

We need to do a better job. Research by the New England Healthcare Institute shows that patients who don’t take their medications as prescribed, cost the U.S. health care system an estimated $290 billion in avoidable medical spending each year.…

Optimizing weight "should be a priority" in the management of patients with type 2 diabetes….

Physical activity only has a modest effect in lowering chronic disease risk factors.…

Asians may need lower body mass index (BMI) cutpoints for overweight and obesity.…

Whenever we discuss GLP-1 and how it works, the discussion usually goes to the currently available analogs, Byetta or Victoza. We all know that DPP-4 inhibitors have an effect on GLP-1 but what is that effect, and how does it affect glucose control? This week’s Homerun Slides, Incretins, Part 3 …

Edited by Trisha Dunning AM, RN, MEd, PhD, CDE, FRCNA and Glenn Ward MBBS, BSc, DPhil (Oxon), FRACP, FRCPath     Mr. XYZ was referred by his GP.

This week we continue our six part series on Incretins with Homerun Slides focused on Sitagliptin….

Steve and I have always looked to the experts when it comes to diabetes care and sometimes the items we have for you are based on results in “ideal world” situations. However, few of our patients operate in a perfect world, and now there is a new diagnostic instrument based …

By Tricia Greaves, President of The Nelson Center Stopping a deadly addiction can give an addict a new lease on life unless he or she neglects to heal the underlying cause of the addiction and instead replaces it with another. The Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California reports that …