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yayasista71

posted 07/23/2008, comments (5)

Lost in the world of diabetes

My life seems so upside down anymore. I found out I was a dibetic about a year ago. Ive been on between 1000 to 2000 mg of metformin within that year. This past monday I had gone to see my doctor for my checkup and he decided to put me on insulin...talk about scarey. It took me a long time to get used to poking myself int he finger with a needle... Read more Chevron

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Ann Bartlett

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posted 07/21/2008, comments (0)

Diabetes and Frozen Shoulder

A year ago, I was walking my two dogs at the beach when one lurched in one direction and other decided to swing around behind me to catch up to the other. The result was one heck of a sore shoulder! For nearly 2 weeks I had trouble moving my shoulder without pain and I had many people telling me I had torn the rotator cuff and I... Read more Chevron

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Dr. Bill Quick

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posted 07/12/2008, comments (0)

Basal-bolus insulin therapy for Type 2 Diabetes

The journal Diabetes Care this month has a fascinating study about basal-bolus insulin therapy for T2DM, titled Adjust to Target in Type 2 Diabetes: Comparison of a simple algorithm with carbohydrate counting for adjustment of mealtime insulin glulisine. The authors compared two algorithms for adjusting mealtime rapid-acting (bolus) insulin and... Read more Chevron

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David Mendosa

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posted 07/06/2008, comments (3)

Looking AHEAD to Weight Loss

One of the biggest and most important diabetes trials is well underway. But so far it hasn't received much attention. That will change. The Look AHEAD trial began in 2001 and is scheduled to conclude in 2012. In it they randomly assigned 5,145 overweight people with type 2 diabetes to either a lifestyle intervention or to enhanced diabetes... Read more Chevron

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posted 07/03/2008, comments (0)

FDA Panel Calls for Stricter Standards for Diabetes Drugs

An FDA panel voted 14-2 in favor of requiring experimental diabetes drugs to show that they don't increase heart or cardiovascular risks. This is bad news for diabetes drugs in the pipeline to be submitted for approval like AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb's drug saxagliptin. Read the story from the Wall Street Journal... Read more Chevron

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