As most of you are probably aware by now, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has had diabetes since childhood. Ms. Sotomayor was born June 25, 1954, and was diagnosed at age 8 -- that would add up to around 47 years of living with diabetes.
Some pundits have been raising questions about whether her diabetes might be a negative... Read more
Way back in 1995, doctors in the US and patients with diabetes had a new option to treat type 2 diabetes: a drug of a different kind from those already available: up until then, the only available drugs for T2DM in the US were the insulins, and a class of drugs called the sulfonylureas. The new drug was in a class called biguanides, and was... Read more
An intriguing abstract was presented at the recent AACE meeting, titled Salivary biomarkers of type 2 diabetes: proteomic profiles for non-invasive diagnostics. The authors identified another way to look for cases of diabetes besides blood glucose testing. (For those of you who want to read it, it's abstract 239 in a huge PDF file, at the AACE... Read more
There's a new drug for type 2 diabetes, just approved by the FDA. Actually, it's an old drug, that has been approved for many years for other medical conditions, and which just got approval for treating diabetes.
I sort of stumbled across the news of its approval after a colleague sent out an e-mail (which indicated that he too was... Read more
A recent news story had a scary title, "Diabetes drug link to pancreatitis." I had an immediate but erroneous reaction to the headline: "it's just another story about Byetta" (Byetta has been suspected to be linked to cases of pancreatitis - see my previous discussions about Byetta and pancreatitis).I also found a press release about the study,... Read more
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