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New Team Approach Improves Diabetes Outcomes and Lowers Medication Costs

Posted: Monday, June 04, 2012

An integrated wellness team approach to diabetes care is helping patients lower their prescription costs and improve their condition....

Moveable Magnets Used to Do Minimally Invasive Gastric Bypass Surgery

Posted: Monday, May 28, 2012

Minimally invasive approach might have applications for weight-loss procedures, diabetes in humans....

The Virtual Examination Room: How New Technology Can Improve Diabetes Care

Posted: Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Telemedicine has proven to be an acceptable means of providing affordable and accessible care to patients in remote areas where endocrine care is not available....

Electronic Daily Diaries Boost Adherence to Diet, Exercise Goals

Posted: Saturday, April 21, 2012

In a prospective, randomized trial, people who used a personal digital assistant (PDA) to itemize their food intake were significantly more likely….

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.

BPA's Diabetes Link Strengthened by New Study

Posted: Monday, February 27, 2012

Growing evidence suggests that even minuscule amounts of BPA (used in everything from pesticides to water bottles) can scramble hormone signals, and trick fat cells into taking in more fat or mislead the pancreas into secreting excess insulin.

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.

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.

NIH Urges You To Make a Plan To Prevent Diabetes, Complications

Posted: Wednesday, November 02, 2011

In observance of National Diabetes Month and World Diabetes Day on Nov. 14, the National Institutes of Health urges people to set goals and make plans to prevent diabetes and diabetes-related complications.

Interactive Mobile App Teaches People How to Manage Diabetes

Posted: Sunday, October 02, 2011

A new interactive mobile phone app called DiabetesIQ, released this week, challenges people to test their knowledge of diabetes and to compete with one another as they learn about the complexities of the disease.