Possibly a new option for reducing triglyceride levels and risk of developing insulin resistance….
Read More »New Treatment For Type 1 Diabetes
When mice are given IL-35, type 1 diabetes is either reversed or completely cured as blood glucose returned to normal… Type 1 diabetes is considered an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks insulin-producing beta pancreatic cells. To better understand how to treat type 1 diabetes, Swedish researchers injected …
Read More »Ketoacidosis Not as Great as Thought in Diabetes Patients Taking Invokana
Retrospective cases showed that some patients treated with canagliflozin had severe diabetes ketoacidosis… The Food Drug Administration (FDA) had previously reported that Invokana® (canagliflozin) had cases of diabetes ketoacidosis (DKA) in type 2 diabetes; however, a recent study done by Janssen Research & Development shows that patients who were taking …
Read More »Quell Wearable Device – An Impressive Advance for Treating Chronic Pain
Quell chronic pain management device is an over-the-counter product (no prescription needed). It uses nerve stimulation to treat multiple types of chronic pain, including diabetic neuropathy and fibromyalgia. Quell stands out as one of the only FDA-cleared non-drug therapies for chronic pain relief, eliminating many of the side effects that …
Read More »George Bakris, MD: SGLT2 Mechanism for BP Reduction Part 2 of 6
George Bakris, MD, continues his discussion with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed on lowering blood pressure and the “white coat” effect. Is this something that can be overcome? Dr. Bakris shares some interesting findings…
Read More »Case Study: The Pathology of Nesidioblastosis
An African-American male was diagnosed with heart failure at age 38 due to severe hypertension. At age 40, patient weighed 166lbs and he had normal glucose tolerance test. Three years later, patient weighed 275 lbs due to unknown reason and he was diagnosed with type I diabetes based on a …
Read More »The Present and Future of Insulin Therapy Part 5
In this week’s Homerun Slides, we take a look at the prevention of beta cell failure in type 2 diabetes…
Read More »The Present and Future of Insulin Therapy Part 4
In this week’s Homerun Slides, we take a look at the beta cell mass and pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes… To download the complete set in PowerPoint format, just use this link: The Present and Future of Insulin Therapy in the Era of Pathophysiologic Treatment of T2DM, Part 4 …
Read More »The Present and Future of Insulin Therapy Part 3
In this week’s Homerun Slides, we continue to focus on insulin therapy in the treatment of type 2 diabetes with a look at the natural histories of type 2 and beta cell failure in type 2 diabetes …
Read More »The Present and Future of Insulin Therapy Part 2
In this week’s Homerun Slides, we take a look at the current therapy for type 2 diabetes…
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