Resources

Medical professionals don’t have a lot of time so Susan Collins explains how to optimize what precious time you do have to get the best results from your social media use, increasing your social media visibility, tracking what your patients are finding out about diabetes, and communicating with your colleagues. …

Susan Collins explains how SurroundHealth works, enabling busy clinicians to gather important resources for patients quickly and effectively, and interact with other equally busy clinicians. SurroundHealth is completely free and is organized as a virtual community where rather than by specialty, discussions are broken into topics, inviting a more collaborative …

      There are three components of a physical fitness program: cardiopulmonary endurance, flexibility and strength training.

  In this week’s set of Homerun Slides, we wrap up this short series on glycemic control in hospitals with some guidelines on how to ensure your patients are at their optimum BG levels during their stay and even after they’ve been discharged….

Diabetic patients treated by healthcare professionals who had poor communication skills were less likely to refill their cardiometabolic medications by more than 30% than those whose doctors were good communicators….

Tinke  Zensorium’s breakthrough technology reveals how patients are at any given time and over a time span. TINKE measures heart rate, blood oxygen level, respiratory rate and heart rate variability (HRV), all with the simple press of a finger to the TINKE thumbpad. The device connects to a smartphone via a …

The protective benefits of having a pear-body shape over an apple-body shape may be more myth than reality….

Looking for 10,000 seniors on Medicare to participate in a free program to prevent diabetes….

Minorities more likely to have proteinuric DKD; less likely to have nonproteinuric DKD….

It remains unclear whether diabetes screening at routine primary care visits will ultimately improve cardiovascular outcomes for patients….