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Effectiveness of Pharmacist-Administered Diabetes Education and Management Services Diabetes management services from clinical pharmacists achieved significant improvements in A1C values and reduced costs of $59,040.

A research group in Bergen has discovered a new form of diabetes. In addition to high blood sugar levels, the disease is characterized by a decrease in pancreatic functioning and reduced fat absorption in the intestine.

Reports of New Onset and Worsening Diabetic Macular Edema for Patients Receiving Rosiglitazone In the majority of these cases, the patients also reported concurrent peripheral edema

A new study, published in the November issue of the journal “Diabetes Care” has indicated that about 40 per cent of diabetic patients can reduce their risk of heart attacks and of dying from heart disease by taking vitamin E supplements.

Pioglitazone treatment of nondiabetic patients with metabolic syndrome appears to reduce atherogenic features of this condition, Philadelphia-based researchers report.

The body’s ability to heal even small skin wounds normally slows down as we age. But a new study in older adults finds that regular exercise may speed up the wound-healing process by as much as 25 percent.

Aggressive treatment to lower high cholesterol in patients with type 1 diabetes, could protect their vision as well as their cardiovascular health, a new study suggests.

Fatty diets that involve large amounts of meat and dairy products encourage diabetes by disrupting the work of a single gene responsible for insulin production, scientists have found.

Published in the 2006 ADA Clinical Practice Recommendations are the new A1c goals for individual patients, which was changed to 6%

Moderate alcohol consumption appears to have a protective effect against type 2 diabetes in older women.