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By Sheri Colberg, PhD   For decades, people blamed excess body fat on a lack of willpower, evidenced by the fact that 90-95 percent of dieters regain all the weight they lose. More recently, hormones like leptin that are released from fat cells have taken more of the rap, along …

Insulin Vial Protection by Securitee Blanket With insulin costing up to 100 dollars a vial, the Securitee Blanket at five dollars is great insurance that can prevent the vial from breaking if dropped. But even more importantly it can help prevent patients who use different insulins from picking up and using …

by Janine Manning, PharmD Candidate LECOM School of Pharmacy   New technological advances over the past decade have led to extraordinary changes for those living with diabetes. Technology has allowed us to go from simply writing glucose values on paper to storing this information into glucometers or even using apps …

Dave Joffe, BSPharm, CDE Editor-in-chief Each and every week we try to bring you a product that can either benefit your patients or your practice. Often times this is just a blurb and a link to a website, however at times a new product comes along that Steve or I …

By Jennifer Freidman 2011 Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate, University of Florida Atrial fibrillation currently affects about 2.2 million Americans. If left untreated it can cause embolism and stroke. The American Heart Association’s current recommendations for stroke prevention include anticoagulation therapy with warfarin being the agent of choice. Warfarin is a drug with a …

In a study published in Archives of Internal Medicine, healthcare professionals were asked to draw up a total of 5, 10, or 30 units of insulin as either human insulin 70/30 premix or a combination of regular + NPH….

  By Sheri Colberg, PhD     You can’t avoid all the latest headlines about the rapidly growing diabetes epidemic –there are just too many. A recent report by health insurer UnitedHealth Group estimated that more than half of Americans will have diabetes or prediabetes by 2020 if current trends …

This handout for patients gives them a simple way to test for starch and sucrose when they’re dining out, and can’t easily determine what the carb content of various foods is by looking at labels or asking restaurant personnel. Just click on this link to download the pdf: How to …

Janine Manning, Pharm.D. Candidate 2011 Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, School of Pharmacy As healthcare professionals, we have seen the increase in the occurrence of diabetes mellitus detected over the past decade in the human population. This has lead to treatment advances to help reduce diabetic complications. What we …

Prevention, therapy and complications are the keystones for diabetes research. It would be impossible to cover all of the developments in just one feature. So here is a brief summary of some of the best for 2010.