Do we have it good in America or what? Shejal Parmar PharmD. Candidate, University of Florida, and a recent endocrinology intern spent most of her life in Kenya and she shares her insight into the differences in getting a prescription and what the pharmacist can do for patients.
Read More »1st International Conference On Advanced Technologies And Treatments For Diabetes
The inaugural International Conference on Advanced Technologies and Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD), was held in Prague, Czech Republic, at the end of February and was attended by over 700 registrants from more than 50 countries. Our own, Dr. Ian Blumer was there to get the latest details on the progress …
Read More »Being Underweight Can Raise Diabetes Risk
Being underweight may place men and women over age 60 at increased risk for developing diabetes, researchers report.
Read More »Lilly and Transition Therapeutics Announce Licensing and Collaboration Agreement
Lilly to Acquire Exclusive Rights to Gastrin/GLP-1 Based Therapies Program for Diabetes.
Read More »Diabetes And Endometrial Cancer Risk
Women with type 2 diabetes had a 70 percent greater likelihood of developing endometrial cancer, study findings suggest.
Read More »Ezetimibe And Twice-Weekly Atorvastatin Effective for Statin-Intolerant Patients
Ezetimibe plus twice-weekly atorvastatin is effective in high-risk patients intolerant to daily statin monotherapy, according to a new report.
Read More »Vitamin D Supplements Can Help To Prevent type 1 Diabetes’ by 30%
Supplements of vitamin D can help young children to ward off diabetes in later life, researchers report. The chance of developing Type 1 diabetes fell by almost a third in those who received extra doses of the vitamin.
Read More »Hyperuricemia Associated With Type 2 Diabetes
High serum uric acid level was an independent risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes in a large population-based study.
Read More »Maternal Diabetes Increases Diabetes Risk To Offspring
The link between a woman’s maternal diabetes and her child’s increased risk for diabetic complications is one step closer to being understood. According to recent research performed at the University if Louisville, there are many functional and metabolic changes that occur in such a child’s pancreatic β cells, which could …
Read More »Weight-loss More Effective than Intensive Insulin Therapy for Type 2 Diabetics
Weight-loss and major lifestyle changes may be more effective than intensive insulin therapy for overweight patients with poorly controlled, insulin-resistant type 2 diabetes, according to a diabetes researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
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