We continue this week with our Homerun Slides series on Pathophysiology in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes: Newer Agents with slides on Incretins and DPP 4 Inhibitors….

When we research the articles for the newsletter we often look for items that represent thought trends in diabetes management and if this week’s news is any indication then food choices are starting to garner more attention in managing and preventing diabetes. This can’t come too soon as a recent …

Fight with Your Underwear to Burn Extra Calories Some people go on a diet. Others go to the gym. But in Japan a more novel way of losing weight is fast gaining popularity — wearing “fat burning” underwear. A growing number of Japanese men and women are slipping into underwear which …

MPR Mobile App now offers a Drug Interactions Checker on the Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android platforms. The MPR Drug Interactions Checker includes a database of nearly 7,000 agents with over 3,800 detailed drug-drug, drug-alcohol, drug-food, and drug-herbal interactions. Interactions are classified by severity and also include …

Researchers have found that people who find it easy to keep fit may just have been born with the right genes, and their research also means couch potatoes previously dismissed as lazy could be missing the gene and so naturally find it more difficult to exercise. Researchers removed two genes …

Scientists in Norway claim that consuming a lot of filtered boiled coffee could help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The study assessed the amount of coffee consumed by 360,000 non-diabetic people from health studies, showed that people who drank at least nine cups of coffee faced a …

US consumers are skipping fewer meals, have mixed feelings about “fresh” products and are less concerned about sodium intake. These and other insights comes from the NPD Group’s 26th annual report on Eating Patterns in America, which includes a list of the foods and beverages we ate more of last …

Adding the type 2 diabetes drug liraglutide (Victoza) to insulin therapy improves glycemic control in patients with type 1 disease, researchers said….

Being obese might up the chance of developing Type 2 diabetes, but the true risk factors may lie in how much someone is overweight and how long they’ve been that way. This is crucial information because we are seeing more obesity in young children….

In newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes, therapy with oral antidiabetes drugs plus basal insulin (OAD+insulin) has had favorable outcomes on recovery and maintenance of β-cell function and protracted glycemic remission compared to treatment with OAD alone….