Resources

Dr. Cyrus Desouza, MBBS, gives us some insight into how to promote better care and lifestyle changes in our patients. Improving patient participation and encouraging them to care for their own disease is key. Peer support has been known to improve diabetes patients’ health as well as group clinics, peer counseling, and having diabetes …

Dr. Cyrus Desouza, MBBS, discusses Shared Medical Appointments (SMA’s), how he has been able to use them in his practice for over ten years, and some of the benefits, including peer-to-peer counseling. He also answers questions about the challenges, including meeting certain parameters, which some medical offices who might want …

Dr. Cyrus Desouza, MBBS, reveals the most interesting new thing about diabetes treatment. Between the 1930’s and the year 2000 there were basically two diabetes drugs developed including insulin and metformin. That has changed dramatically and soon, patient treatment could involve much more tailored care….

  In this week’s set of Homerun Slides, we delve in to what happens when blood sugar levels increase, the prevalence of prediabetes in our culture today, and some of the possible strategies and research investigating the prevention of diabetes, including the Diabetes Prevention Program….

Anne Peters, MD, and Lori Laffel, MD, MPH, Editors Jane Lee Chiang, MD, Managing Editor Prevention of Beta-cell Destruction and Preservation for Those with Existing Type 1 Diabetes Jane Lee Chiang, MD, and Stephen E. Gitelman, MD Current therapies and technologies offer a means to live with type 1 diabetes …

  "OSENI" for Type 2 Diabetes   Active ingredients: Alogliptin/pioglitazone. Indications: As adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus when treatment with both alogliptin and pioglitazone is appropriate. 

Sugar intake seems to promote the growth and spread of tumors in fruit flies through a few pathways….

High intensity physical activity in sessions less than 10 minutes can be as effective for losing weight as lower intensity exercise over a longer period of time….

New information on one of diabetes’ most debilitating complications…. Diabetic neuropathy affects approximately 60-70% of people with diabetes. For such a common problem that affects patients with diabetes, little is known about peripheral neuropathy. Patients with diabetes who are suffering from peripheral neuropathy talk of how terrible it is to …

Elevation in oxidative stress level can damage cell and tissue….