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Researchers have found that patients with diabetes who require surgery for ankle fractures have significantly higher rates of complications and higher hospital costs compared with non-diabetic patients.

Intensive insulin therapy safeguards the endothelium of critically ill patients and improves survival.

Autoantibodies directed against autonomic nerves are associated with the subsequent development of cardiac and peripheral autonomic neuropathy in diabetic patients.

A link between consumption of coffee and caffeine and a risk of type-2 diabetes has been bandied about for some time, but a new research suggests that the relationship may be age- and weight-loss related.

Doctors Prompted by Trained Nurses Improves Rates of Counseling for Diabetes PreventionInvolving nurses in diabetes prevention with simple prompts can lead to improved outcomes.

Coronary arteries are less likely to reclog in patients who receive stents coated with the drug sirolimus (Cypher; Cordis, Johnson & Johnson) the results of three newly published studies suggest that the difference appears to be more pronounced in patients with diabetes.

Risk of colorectal cancer in men with diabetes was 49% higher than that in men who didn’t have diabetes, results from a study of 45,000 men.

FDA approved a real-time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system (Guardian RT, made by Medtronic, Inc.) for the management of types 1 and 2 diabetes in patients aged 18 years and older.

Business is business and many times we forget that we need to stay focused on our financial goals when we are involved with patient care. Steve Pohlit, CPA, MBA, reminds us how to get back on track in his continuing roadmap series. This week he asks us to Stop and …

This week Paul Chous, M.A., O.D., reflects on some data from the DPP, showing how pre-diabetes patients can develop Retinopathy. Paul, who has had type one diabetes for 38 years specializes in Diabetes Eye Care and has crafted a great explanation in Diabetic Retinopathy Without Diabetes?