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By Sheri Colberg, PhD Not that you need anything else to worry about, but now experts are claiming that sitting can kill you. We all know the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle, but this latest news is more alarming for those of us who consider ourselves active because we work …

Garmin Forerunner 210 Forerunner® 210 gives you the freedom to train indoors or out. Outdoors, it uses GPS to accurately record your time, pace and distance. To track that same data at the gym, snap the foot pod onto your shoe and you’re good to go. For even more options, …

More Than 50 Ways to Prevent Diabetes A simple three page handout for your patients at risk for diabetes. This handout (courtesy of the US Dept of Health and Human Service’s National Diabetes Education Program) from will help your patients understand how simple changes in their diet and physical activity …

Implantable device promises diabetes patients continuous exenatide therapy with 100% compliance. Tolerability and weight loss was better with ITCA 650 20 μg/day than with exenatide injections…. 

Patients with hyperglycemia during acute illness who are not diagnosed with diabetes should be considered a population at increased risk for developing diabetes… 

Low doses of some persistent organic pollutants (POPs) associate cross-sectionally with Type 2 diabetes, whereas associations with high POP exposures are inconsistent…

The efficacy and safety of and key clinical considerations for using U-500 insulin human regular in the treatment of high-dose insulin-treated patients in a wide variety of settings are examined…

Researchers say clinicians should consider seasonal variations in systolic blood pressure when treating patients with diabetic nephropathy, after finding seasonal variations in urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR), likely linked to blood-pressure changes… 

An intensive lifestyle change program helped people with Type 2 diabetes lose weight and keep it off, a new study shows. Intensive lifestyle change program yielded better results than support group. Diabetes control and cardiovascular risks were sustained over four years….

Garlic has “significant” potential for preventing cardiomyopathy, a form of heart disease that is a leading cause of death in people with diabetes, scientists from the Department of Biological Science and Technology, China Medical University, Taiwan, have concluded in a new study. The report also explains why people with diabetes …