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People can safely add a few nuts to their diet — or replace other foods with the high-unsaturated fat, high-fiber snacks — without gaining weight….

Weight regain among diabetic patients who have undergone gastric bypass is not associated with remission of diabetes….

Richard S. Beaser, MD Michael Johnstone, MD   The weeks excerpt answers the following questions: What are "anginal equivalents"? When is cardiac testing indicated in patients with diabetes who have underlying CAD? When is stress perfusion imaging or a stress echo an appropriate initial choice? When is Doppler testing of …

In this week’s set of Homerun Slides, we review Quality Measure for Health Plans including NCQA Recognition, HEDIS, and Medicare 5 Star Quality Measures….

Tubeguard  For patients who are experiencing difficulties with insulin pump tubing getting kinked or popping out, the tubeguard™ is a convenient and easy-to-use system to roll and store infusion set tubing. Instead of rolling up insulin tubing and putting it in a pocket or wedging it in the waist of …

For treatment of diabetes and prediabetes patients…. 

Leptin therapy studies are looking very promising for the treatment of diabetes in both type 1 and 2 patients…. 

Vitamin D supplementation for the prevention of the onset of type 1 diabetes is also being studied…. 

A survey also found that women take less medication to help improve both diabetes and cardiovascular disease….

A retrospective study with 200 patients looked at type 2 diabetes with hypertension to find the number of drug-related problems that occur in this population….