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Scientific understanding of the disease shifts treatment to drugs with newer mechanisms…. 

The link between high blood glucose, blood vessel damage, and Alzheimer’s…. 

Does hyperglycemia lead to diabetic kidney disease?…

  With this week’s set of Homerun Slides, we wrap up our short series on cystic fibrosis with slides covering guidelines for treatment as well as some promising new therapies….

Anne Peters, MD, and Lori Laffel, MD, MPH, Editors Jane Lee Chiang, MD, Managing Editor PEDIATRICS – Jane Lee Chiang, MD, and Georgeanna J. Klingensmith, MD ADULTS – Irl B. Hirsch, MD INTRODUCTION Normal Physiology The normal pancreas deftly releases basal insulin, superimposed with bursts of insulin for rising glucose levels associated …

GlucoTrack – Experimental Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitor  Integrity Applications has developed a non-invasive blood glucose monitor. The device uses a patented combination of ultrasonic, electromagnetic, and thermal technologies which measure three distinct criteria to provide an accurate blood glucose measurement. GlucoTrack is battery-operated and includes a Main Unit (MU), which contains …

Proportions may be the key…. 

About 50% of patients experience the dawn phenomenon…. 

In earlier clinical trials dapagliflozin consistently reduced HbA1c in treatment-naive patients….

How do vitamin D levels correlate with HbA1c?…  Recent studies have demonstrated correlations between low vitamin D levels and the development of type 2 diabetes while others provide similar findings but on the opposite spectrum where higher levels of vitamin D are associated with decreased incidence of type 2 diabetes. …