It is not often that you get someone who wrote the ADA guidelines to share his slides with you, but this week our publisher, Steve Freed, asked his good friend Dr. Aaron I. Vinik, MD, PhD, FCP, MACP, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Strelitz Diabetes Center, to share his slides on …

Edited by Trisha Dunning AM, RN, MEd, PhD, CDE, FRCNA and Glenn Ward MBBS, BSc, DPhil (Oxon), FRACP, FRCPath This week, we continue with Part 3 of our special series of case discussions. CASE DISCUSSION : Ms. ME Ms. ME was referred to an endocrinologist and diabetes educator by her …

"If King Hattusili III is cured from the fire that burns his feet, I will give a golden cup with a handle of lapis lazuli to Goddess Ningal!" — attributed to Queen Puduhepa, approx 1250 BC….

 I was reading a book on weight loss and muscle gain, and how to maximize both for managing diabetes when I was presented with a study from the University of Wisconsin- Madison on the use of a cell phone camera to lose weight. This “flash diet” requires the person to simply …

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  Novo Nordisk has announced the launch of the NovoTwist® pen needle in the United States. It is available for use with Novo Nordisk pre-filled delivery devices, including Levemir® FlexPen®, NovoLog®, FlexPen®, Victoza® Pen and other Novo Nordisk pens, and is the first single-twist needle cleared for use in the United …

Multiple pregnancies may increase the risk of obesity, diabetes and the buildup of plaque in the arteries, suggests new research in mice. Scientists from the University of Cincinnati and colleagues studied mice late in gestation in either their first or fourth pregnancy. Those in their fourth pregnancy had severe glucose …

Researchers from the CDC examined health insurance claims made in 2007 for nearly 50,000 youth aged 19 and younger, including 8,226 with diabetes. Annual medical expenses for youth with diabetes were $9,061, compared with $1,468 for those without diabetes. Prescription drugs and outpatient care accounted for much of the extra …

Diabetes diagnoses are rising at an even faster rate among dogs and cats than their human companions, according to a national analysis of pet health released this week. Diabetes rates increased by nearly a third among dogs in the last four years and by 16% among cats. It is much …

A new prescription medication Tradjenta (linagliptin) has gained FDA approval for the treatment of adult Type 2 diabetes. Tradjenta will compete with two other drugs in the same family, Onglyza and Januvia.…