Resources

This week we begin a new Homerun Slides series on advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) focusing on gaining insight into understanding the formation of  (AGEs), their overall impact on diabetic patients, and ways to reduce or negate their effect.

How often have you heard things about physical activity that sounded right, but that you didn’t know whether to believe or not? If you go hang out at a gym, you’ll hear about everything, including contradictory statements about what will give you the best results. Should you work out in …

Associations between acute glucose lowering and improved acute insulin secretory responses suggest improved β-cell function. Comparing and assessing effects of pharmacological therapies used to control hyperglycemia on β-cell function is necessarily inferential, given lack of any universal measure.1

tSlim Insulin Pump An insulin pump that’s sized like a credit card, Tandem Diabetes Care’s t:slim™ Insulin Delivery System is today’s slimmest insulin pump — up to 25% slimmer than others. Through an easy-to-use touch screen, entering important information and accessing features is accomplished with fewer button-pressing steps. The t:slim insulin …

Intensive therapy for type 1 diabetes mellitus lowers the long-term risk for impaired glomerular filtration rate (GFR).…

Takeda announced that the FDA has assigned a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date of January 25, 2012 for the review of its investigational type 2 diabetes therapy alogliptin, and the fixed-dose combination therapy alogliptin/pioglitazone.…

Poor glycemic control, whether too high or too low, is associated with decreased survival in diabetic patients on hemodialysis….

Women who regularly drink sugary beverages may be increasing their cardiovascular risk….

Resveratrol, an ingredient found in red wine, may improve the health of obese men….

A pig’s pancreatic islets were transplanted into a diabetic monkey which was then administered a newly developed immune-regulating antibody. As a result, the monkey’s blood-sugar level was automatically controlled without any rejection, and has been healthy for the last six months….