Recently, the question was asked: “Does anyone have any tricks for knowing when it’s time to toss a vial of insulin?” The writer was concerned about whether a vial contains bad insulin – that is, insulin that has a diminished ability to decrease blood sugar levels compared to what was expected. There are lots of discussions... Read more
A recent diabetes report, Achievement of Goals in U.S. Diabetes Care 1999–2010, examined how people with diabetes said they are doing. The participants had been enrolled in two big U.S. surveys, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and who had self-reported... Read more
A recent study, Rapid Improvement of Diabetes After Gastric Bypass Surgery, Is It the Diet or Surgery? caught my eye. As long-term readers know, I’ve been an adamant advocate for limiting the use of weight loss surgery for diabetes management to patients participating in clinical trials (see Weight-Loss Surgery Does Not Cure... Read more
A year ago, I wrote Diabetes Alert Dogs Are An Unproven Concept. A recent brief report in Diabetes Care, Diabetic Alert Dogs: A Preliminary Survey of Current Users doesn’t change my mind. As I previously pointed out, there aren’t any published peer-reviewed studies to support the claims that DADs (diabetes alert dogs) are... Read more
This morning, April 1st, I stumbled across a news item that sounded suspiciously like an April Fool’s joke: Study Reveals How Diabetes Drug Delays Ageing In Worms. My suspicion was increased when I saw a typo in the story that implied the researchers were excessively manly: “according to a stud [sic] using worms to... Read more
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