A new study, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, suggests that both the prevention and treatment of these disorders may benefit from addressing poor sleep.
In the last decade, as pumps have become more sophisticated, so have potential pump problems. Before, it was almost always user error to fear. Now, we’ve had to become vigilant of computer failure, as well.
“The women who had the highest levels of this salivary stress biomarker had a 29% decreased probability of pregnancy over time, and that actually translated into a more than two-fold risk of infertility for them by the end of the study,” said lead author Courtney Lynch.
You only have to walk in the shoes of a person with type 1 or type 2 diabetes for about 35 minutes (or the time it takes to eat an apple) to realize that this disease is about so much more than just diet and exercise. In fact, diabetes can affect every aspect of your […]
The Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) is taking a narrow view of what it dubs “necessary” for people with diabetes. The result is a lack of coverage for good quality glucose meters, fewer test strips, and no coverage at all for CGM.
The FDA will delay allowing the type 2 drug empagliflozin to enter the U.S. market until “previously observed deficiencies” at the plant where it is manufactured are fixed. The delay does not call into question the safety or utility of the drug, which is manufactured by Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim.
Any islets transplanted into the T1 body must run a gauntlet of killer T cells to survive long enough to integrate into the body. Most don’t live that long; some 90% of islets die either during transplant or shortly thereafter, making islet therapy often an expensive T1 therapy of last resort.
Are you killing it in the gym but not seeing results? Chances are, you’ve fallen victim to bad advice. That’s easy to do these days, notes Jessica Matthews, spokesperson for the American Council on Exercise (ACE): “We have greater access to information, but it isn’t always accurate.”
Is the usage of these drugs increasing because of their glorious results or have the pharmaceutical companies trained our nation into simply becoming repeat customers?
This week, Wil tackles “The Great Diabetes Coffee Debate” and also chimes in on the issue of how insulin pump calculations can be confusing to users.
We asked some of our favorite nutrition experts to share with us which piece of spring produce (it’s SO hard to pick just one!) they’re most excited to dig their teeth into. Check out their responses — as well as their favorite ways to prepare their picks — below.
A study published Wednesday in the journal Stroke finds that 1 in 5 U.S. women can’t identify a single warning sign — even though stroke is the fourth leading cause of death among Americans and the third among women, affecting roughly 55,000 more women than men each year.
Research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and reported on by The New York Times, says that sugary foods and excess carbohydrates, not saturated fat, are the main culprits in the build-up of artery-clogging particles.
There are about 84 different automatic insulin calculator apps on iTunes. Many of the smart phone apps work along with diet and exercise apps so that patients can manage his or her diet and disease state.
Researchers showed that lipid molecules called phosphatidic acids enhance glucose production in the liver. These findings suggest that inhibiting or reducing production of phosphatidic acids may do the opposite.
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego and Johns Hopkins University found that sodium intake decreased more when people were taught how to use spices and herbs in their cooking, choose low-sodium foods at restaurants and monitor their diet, than when people were left to go it alone.
MikeH ponders the advantages and disadvantages of several insulin pumps recently approved by the FDA.
This information is updated from the book Diabetes: Sugar-Coated Crisis, published in 2007. Since then, things have changed, mostly for the worse. Hopefully, knowing how the environment makes people sick will help you protect yourself against it.
This new meter debuted in Europe under the name Diamond more than a year ago, but the company wanted to change the name to Test N’ Go, so that delayed the launch here in the States to this February — despite the fact that it got FDA approval back in 2012.
Half of Americans subscribe to medical conspiracy theories, with more than one-third of people thinking that the Food and Drug Administration is deliberately keeping natural cures for cancer off the market because of pressure from drug companies, a survey finds.