The face of medicine is up for another change this week as the first ARB becomes available generically. Many of our patients have been prevented from getting drugs in this class due to the high cost of the brand names. Now with the approval of generic losartan potassium tablets more …

Hirsch, AR, Soto, MO, Hirsch, JA, Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation

Guide to Physical Activity and Your Heart This booklet will help your patients understand the impact of physical activity on their heart, as well as the power of regular activity to help keep healthy. It also offers plenty of ideas on starting a physical activity program that will be both …

One Touch Verio by LifeScan This is a new monitor by LifeScan which is approved for use overseas, and may soon be here in the U.S. The test strip has been redesigned. No more little black strips. This one is green in color and instead of having a 3 striped …

FreeStyle Navigator® Continuous Glucose Monitoring System is experiencing a supply interruption and has been unable to provide patients with replacement receivers and transmitters and cannot estimate when the supply of the FreeStyle Navigator Continuous Glucose Monitoring System will resume. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first …

The number of people with diabetes is projected to nearly double by 2034 to 44.1 million due in large part to the aging of the baby boom population and increased rates of overweight and obesity. And if we are not successful in slowing the number of new cases of diabetes …

Nearly 24 million Americans have diabetes and another 57 million have pre-diabetes and are at risk of developing the disease. In comparison, 11.4 million Americans have cancer and 1.05 million Americans have HIV. (2007 National Diabetes Fact Sheet, CDC)

Diabetes is one of the most costly diseases in America, with total direct and indirect costs for diabetes and pre-diabetes estimated at $218 billion in 2007. Currently, only 3.7 percent of the National Institute for Health budget goes to diabetes research, despite the fact that one out of every five …

One out of every 10 healthcare dollars is spent on diabetes and its complications, and one in every three Medicare dollars is spent on people with diabetes. (Halvorsen, George, Healthcare Will Not Reform Itself, CRC Press, 2009, p.131)

Alpha cells in the pancreas, which do not produce insulin, can convert into insulin-producing beta cells, advancing the prospect of regenerating beta cells as a cure for Type 1 diabetes….