by Alan L. Graber, Anne W. Brown, Kathleen Wolff          Reviewed by Coleen Hart, PharmD Candidate Graber, Brown, and Wolff’s “A Life of Control: Stories of Living with Diabetes” provides the reader with unbiased, truthful, and endearing visions of how many aspects of life can be affected …

This handout for patients gives them a simple way to test for starch and sucrose when they’re dining out, and can’t easily determine what the carb content of various foods is by looking at labels or asking restaurant personnel. Just click on this link to download the pdf: How to …

Introducing NovoPen Echo® for Kids Designed to fit children’s smaller hands with a dose button and a short travel distance making it easier for kids to use, NovoPen Echo® combines dosing in half-unit increments with a simple, easy-to-use, memory function. It has removable skins, so kids can personalize their pen. NovoPen …

FDA Says “Maybe Later” to Inhaled Insulin: MannKind’s whistle-sized inhaled insulin device, Afrezza, was designed to administer mealtime doses of powdered insulin in metered, single-use cartridges but ran into problems with the FDA over a redesign. FDA has asked for a new trial in Type 1 diabetes patients and another …

A New Aspirin Formulation Easier on Stomach: The main contraindication for aspirin that prevents people from using it are ulcers and GI irritation. A recent clinical trial involving a new drug formulation incorporating aspirin with soy-derived phosphatidylcholine found that the drug combination significantly reduced irritation to the stomach and upper …

Analysis Cautions against Wider Use of Statins: There is not enough evidence to recommend the widespread use of statins in people with no previous history of heart disease, scientists said last week. In a systematic review published in The Cochrane Library journal, researchers said the cholesterol-lowering drugs should be prescribed …

Having both diseases greatly increases the chances of dying….

Portable meters used to gauge blood sugar levels in pregnant women with diabetes gave readings that differed from lab tests by up to 16%….

Consider a GLP-1 plus a long-acting insulin….

One more reason to normalize blood sugars is that diabetes and hyperglycemia are associated with increases in bleeding during hemorrhagic stroke and worse clinical outcomes….