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Older, diabetic adults can reduce their injury risk from falls through preventative programs including medication therapy management, balance exercises, and cognitive training….

Does poor sleep increase the risk of diabetes?…

Long term study shows Welchol delivers continued HbA1c control while lowering LDL levels….

Diabetes joins hypertension as a major risk factor for sleep apnea….

Of the 32 accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Pioneer program, only 13 achieved enough savings….

Many health systems’ insurance arms plan to push policies on the new insurance exchanges to expand their base of potential patients…. 

Neonatologists, intensivists, and plastic surgeons had the biggest increases: family physicians come in last….

When a new medication comes into the marketplace, some clinicians will begin prescribing it right away while others will wait for more information.

Dr. Bernstein reported that a treatment by a podiatrist probably caused an infection in a known diabetic. He alleges that the DPM used a “pumice” stone to grind it down and therefore caused the infection….

A position statement by controversial low-carb guru Richard Bernstein, MD has been circulating in various forms since August 2012, blaming all foot amputations in patients with diabetes on debridement of calluses. This past April 2013, Diabetes Care, the well-respected journal of the American Diabetes Association, republished the letter. The misinformation in this …