Specialties

The longer patients were treated with metformin after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, the greater their survival rates were, depending on the dose they were given….

Sugar-sweetened beverages cause weight gain for four and five year-old children and put two year olds at greater risk for future weight gain….

Christina Kanaka-Gantenbein, MD, PhD Acidosis management  Severe acidosis is reversible by fluid and insulin replacement. Insulin stops lipolysis and further ketone production and allows ketoacids to be metabolized, generating bicarbonate.4 Moreover, treatment of hypovolemia improves tissue perfusion and renal function, thereby increasing the excretion of organic acids. Controlled trials have …

‘Reprogrammed’ glucose uptake in the small intestine may explain why gastric bypass surgery can sometimes result in the early resolution of type 2 diabetes…. 

According to the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, current data linking glucagon-like-peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists to adverse pancreatic events are not adequate….

A registry study affirmed that insulin glargine (Lantus) didn’t significantly raise cancer risk compared with "human" insulin…. 

Dr. Bernstein reported that a treatment by a podiatrist probably caused an infection in a known diabetic. He alleges that the DPM used a “pumice” stone to grind it down and therefore caused the infection….

A position statement by controversial low-carb guru Richard Bernstein, MD has been circulating in various forms since August 2012, blaming all foot amputations in patients with diabetes on debridement of calluses. This past April 2013, Diabetes Care, the well-respected journal of the American Diabetes Association, republished the letter. The misinformation in this …

    By Sheri Colberg, PhD   Diabetes-related damage to the central nervous system (autonomic neuropathy) can result in silent ischemia, hyperthermia, or lightheadedness with standing and during exercise.

Some medications used to treat hypertension may lead to an increased occurrence of diabetes….