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Let’s forget about listing calories on menus and list the time it takes to burn the calories that you are about to order and eat. What if we listed the number of steps or the time needed to burn the calories you are about to eat rather than the calories …

The FDA’s Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC) voted 9 to 6 against recommending the approval of the first in class novel antidiabetic agent dapagliflozin, largely because of fears that the product may cause breast and bladder cancer.… The EMDAC panel was also concerned about a lack of pharmacokinetic …

Obesity is a recognized risk factor for heart disease, but it is the location of fat — in the belly or in the liver — that combines to drive metabolic defects that produce hypertriglyceridemia, researchers found.…

This week we finish our analysis of our GLP-1 survey results with a look at prescribing reasons and habits, and how your colleagues decide on GLP-1 analog or DPP-4 inhibitor therapy. Most of the respondents favored Victoza but not as by as wide a margin as expected. Prescribers had a more …

What are the effects of using a GLP-1 drug when on the Atkins diet and a low-fat diet? Who are the best candidates for using a GLP-1 drug? Can GLP-1 drugs reduce apoptosis and increase betacell regeneration? Our publisher, Steve Freed, asks these questions and much more of Dr. David …

Edited by Trisha Dunning AM, RN, MEd, PhD, CDE, FRCNA and Glenn Ward MBBS, BSc, DPhil (Oxon), FRACP, FRCPath Mr.  BE was referred by a nurse working in acute care. Mr. BE is a 78-year-old male who had lithotripsy yesterday. He had an incidental random glucose 12.8 BGLs on ward range …

This week we conclude out special seven part from Dr. Paul Chous with slides on the newest therapies for Diabetic Retinopathy….

When your child with diabetes is sick and cannot keep food down, his or her blood glucose can drop quickly. A small amount of glucagon (a mini-dose) can raise the blood glucose before it becomes too low and requires a call to 911 Click here to download the Mini-Dose Glucagon …

AirFloss – Flossing without Floss Sonicare AirFloss is specially designed to give your patients an easy, effective way to clean interproximally. It features microburst technology that delivers microdroplets of air and water to remove plaque biofilm between teeth, and it’s proven safe and gentle on gums and teeth.

A federal advisory committee voted 9 to 6 on July 19 that a first-of-its-kind diabetes drug should not be approved for use because of safety concerns, including a possible increased risk of breast and bladder cancers….