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Text Messaging Helps to Manage Diabetes

Posted: Monday, March 12, 2012

New published research assessed the feasibility of engaging adults with diabetes in self-management behaviors between clinic visits by using cell phone text messaging to provide blood sugar measurement prompts and appointment reminders.

Doctors Finally Advising Patients to Exercise

Posted: Monday, March 05, 2012

The number of doctors in the US telling patients to get physically active has increased in the past decade. New research shows that, in 2010 alone, one in three patients who visited a physician or other health professional had been told to start or maintain physical activity or exercise.

Resistance Training Improves Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes

Posted: Sunday, February 26, 2012

Besides improving patients' glucose numbers researchers saw improved metabolic features such as reductions in waist circumference.

Setting Goals Improves Dietary Habits of Diabetes Patients

Posted: Friday, February 17, 2012

A specific goal to eat a set number of daily servings of low-glycemic-index foods can improve dietary habits of people with type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes Advocacy Alliance Applauds Funding for CDC Program to Prevent Diabetes

Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2012

The Diabetes Advocacy Alliance™ (DAA) today applauded the Department of Health and Human Services for approving $10 million in funding for the CDC's National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP), an initiative that provides local communities with lifestyle change programs for preventing type 2 diabetes.

Intermittent Exercise Improves Glucose for People with Diabetes

Posted: Monday, February 13, 2012

New study finds exercise in low oxygen environment may result in improved insulin sensitivity.

New NIH fact sheet explains test for diabetes, prediabetes

Posted: Thursday, January 26, 2012

A new fact sheet from the National Institutes of Health explains the A1C test, a widely used and important test to diagnose type 2 diabetes and prediabetes, and to monitor blood glucose levels of people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

New Report Rates 25 Diet Plans

Posted: Sunday, January 08, 2012

Experts examine 25 diet plans and rate them in different ways.

Medtronic Remote Diabetes Monitor Gets U.S. Approval

Posted: Sunday, January 08, 2012

Medtronic Inc. has announced it has received regulatory approval for the first remote glucose monitor that will let parents check the blood sugar of a diabetic child sleeping in another room.

For T2DM, the Quality of Guidelines on Oral Meds Varies Dramatically

Posted: Saturday, January 07, 2012

According to the results of a systematic review, not all practice guidelines on oral medications for type 2 diabetes are consistent with available evidence, and guideline quality varies widely.