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Surgeons from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, are reporting on a whole new strategy for controlling insulin dependent diabetes without daily injections of insulin. The surgeons have bio-engineered a novel matrix that serves as a scaffold for seeding supportive stem cells as well as pancreatic islets….

A little excess weight after age 70 could do the body some good, according to results of a study involving 9,000 older patients. Overweight study participants had a 13% lower risk of death compared with normal-weight participants….

Vigilant monitoring of glycemic levels is the key to success for comprehensive glycemic control in patients with Type 2 diabetes….

US District Judge George Steeh, in Detroit, Michigan, ruled that the nation’s constitution permits the federal government to require individuals to obtain health insurance coverage as part of the historic Affordable Care Act (ACA)….

Severe hypoglycemia in Type 2 diabetes appears to be associated with an increased risk of vascular complications three times the risk of death, researchers have found…

Researchers in a new study found that taking chromium picolinate may help lessen inflammation associated with diabetic nephropathy… 

Structured self-monitored blood glucose with pattern analysis has been associated with greater reductions in A1c. It also requires less testing than the standard approach, and promotes more timely and aggressive treatment changes in poorly controlled, non-insulin-treated patients with Type 2 diabetes, according to study results….

The words you use when discussing weight lose can impact your patients’ success….

New reported evidence offers a completely new explanation for why people with diabetes account for more than half of all patients requiring dialysis or kidney transplantation….

Implantable device promises diabetes patients continuous exenatide therapy with 100% compliance. Tolerability and weight loss was better with ITCA 650 20 μg/day than with exenatide injections….