The controversy about Lantus and cancer continues to heat up. Leading experts are coming forward to share their opinions on the meta-analysis. It is too bad that the lay press will never get these expert opinions to our patients. Last week Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics published an outstanding editorial by three …

Proving the Value of Drug Research Often our patients feel that pharmaceutical companies no longer do research and only spend money on advertising, dinners and conferences. This graph shows the opposite is true. Proving the Value of Drug Research  

Major depression doubles the risk of incident diabetic foot ulcers, according to the results of a large, prospective, population-based cohort study…… 

Diabetics are more prone to oral fungus disease. 

New research has identified a genomic fragment, called a transposon, or “jumping gene,” that diminishes the activity of the diabetes risk gene in both mice and humans……

Whatever we have been doing to help patients control their blood sugars over the last 100 years has not worked, most patients are still out of control……

Obesity Accounts for Greatest Jump in Healthcare Costs: 

Amylin Pharmaceuticals announced positive results, showing an average 22 pound weight loss from a 28-week study of pramlintide/leptin……

Just 0.1% of people request nutritional information. So having the information listed……

Obese adolescents lost significantly more weight on a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet than on a ……