Resources

Drug maker Amylin Pharmaceuticals has filed for regulatory approval of a drug to treat diabetes and elevated triglycerides in the bloodstream in children and adults with a rare disorder…. 

 By Richard S. Beaser, M.D.   Can you answer this question? If a person without diabetes were to be given a slow intravenous infusion of a 5% glucose solution into the right arm, what would the glucose levels be from blood drawn from the left arm? Find out what the …

  This week, we have the second and last of our two-part Homerun Slides series on Pramlintide, covering safety issues and providing some guidelines for prescribing this important medication….

Aaron I. Vinik, MD, PhD, FCP, MACP Eastern Virginia Medical School, Strelitz Diabetes and Neuroendocrine Center Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism Norfolk, Virginia USA Topiramate is a structurally novel anti-epileptic drug effective in management of various types of epilepsy and prevention of migraine headaches. A sulfamate substituted …

From dLife comes a guide (in pdf format) that can help your patients better understand how diabetes can cause cardiovascular disease. Can your patients answer the question: What percent of patients with diabetes are affected by cardiovascular complications?

People with diabetes don’t need to exercise every day to see an effect on their blood sugar levels…. 

New guidelines on dyslipidemia and the prevention of atherogenesis give official sanction to something endocrinologists have been doing for years: lowering LDL targets…. 

Walking briskly for an hour every day can cut the effect of genetic tendencies toward obesity in half….

High-fat meals increase levels of blood toxins that can cause complications in type 2 diabetes patients…. 

Eating more blueberries, apples and pears may be linked to lower risk of diabetes….