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This mobile app is an innovative new way for patients to explore their knowledge of the forms, progression, treatment, and complications of diabetes. Users participate in quizzes with extensive feedback, comparing results with other contestants as they progress through multiple game levels by solving visual puzzles. They can also discover …

 Time Reminder for Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Patients Through an incorporated timer, Timesulin reminds patients when they last had their insulin injection. The ‘smart cap’ is the first major improvement in insulin pens since their release twenty years ago, relieving both patients and health care practitioners of major concerns by greatly reducing …

Visiting a primary care clinician every two weeks was associated with greater control of blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels among patients with diabetes….

Men aged 60 years or older who have elevated triglyceride levels are at increased risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa), according to the investigators. They also are more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive PCa.…

Offering a rare glimmer of good cardiovascular-disease news for a diabetes drug, a new meta-analysis suggests that dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors, at worst, do not increase the risk of cardiovascular events and, at best, may even have a protective effect.…

Pregnancy outcomes with gestational diabetes are similar whether women follow a low-glycemic index (LGI) diet or a conventional high-fiber diet, according to a study….

In a study of a large population of patients with diabetes, poor short-term glucose control was associated with a significantly elevated risk for bloodstream infection (BSI)….

Both simvastatin and metformin can prompt improvements in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) but simvastatin seems to have a stronger effect, new research suggests.…

Maggots are an effective, low-cost salvage option to debride poorly vascularized, infected wounds in patients with diabetes, especially when vascular remediation is not possible….

Tight glucose control won’t mitigate the cognitive effects of type 2 diabetes, an ACCORD subanalysis found.…