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
An upcoming case report to be presented at the AACE Annual Meeting will present the case for medical tattoos. As AACE's press release states, "One of the most obvious benefits of medical tattooing is for identification purposes in an emergency situation, especially for patients with diabetes, when a patient may be incapacitated-particularly in... Read more
The Annals of Internal Medicine has recently published a very intriguing article: Differences in Control of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes by Race, Ethnicity, and Education: U.S. Trends From 1999 to 2006 and Effects of Medicare Coverage.
The authors reviewed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)... Read more
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