Diabetes and Oral Health Patient Handout Periodontal health can affect blood sugar levels.  Here is a handout for your patients that will remind your patients as to the best way to prevent and treat periodontal disease. This handout will explain the relationship of oral health to their blood sugars. Because …

Senate Report Links Diabetes Drug Avandia to Heart Attacks. The diabetes drug Avandia is linked with tens of thousands of heart attacks, and drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline knew of the risks for years but worked to keep them from the public, according to a Senate committee report released Saturday. The 334-page report …

Child Obesity Risks Death at Early Age, Study Finds: A rare study that tracked thousands of children through adulthood found the heaviest youngsters were more than twice as likely as the thinnest to die prematurely (before age 55) of illness or a self-inflicted injury. Youngsters with a condition called pre-diabetes …

Eye Damage from Diabetes Remains the Leading Cause of Blindness in Adults: Nearly 60% of all diabetes patients can expect to develop diabetic retinopathy within ten years of their diagnosis. Despite major progress in diagnosis and treatment, diabetic retinopathy remains the major cause of blindness in adults under 60 in …

One Espresso Can Slow Blood Flow to the Heart: It may be the perfect morning pick-me-up. But a single espresso could be bad for your heart and reduce blood flow by more then 20%. Decaffeinated coffee, in contrast, can boost blood flow. The researchers said the high amount of caffeine …

Minorities Less Likely to Receive A1c Diabetes Test: Ethnic and racial minorities bear a disproportionate share of America’s diabetes epidemic but are two to three times less likely than white patients to receive the A1c test during physician office visits, according to Washington State University researchers. Earlier this year, the …

Obesity, glucose intolerance, and hypertension in childhood are strongly linked with premature death from endogenous causes in young adulthood and middle age, according to the results of a new epidemiological study….

A clinical trial of Exsulin, an innovative new treatment that targets the underlying cause of Type 1 diabetes offering hope for those with Type 1 diabetes, has begun at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), Montreal….

According to a study, metformin XR, a medication prescribed to treat patients with Type 2 diabetes, helps adolescents lose weight when used in combination with a program encouraging increased physical activity and controlled diet….

Measures of quality of care and clinical outcomes improved significantly when diabetic patients in a large private health plan were treated by physicians receiving pay-for-performance incentives, researchers said….