Endocrinology

Patients with diabetes face a number of challenges in their daily life, especially monitoring their blood glucose levels. There is work being done in the medical community to monitor other potential issues that can affect quality of life overall and how to address them.

Novo Nordisk’s Xultophy combines a previously marketed basal insulin with a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, and was yesterday accepted by the FDA. The company plans to have the drug on the market in 2017.

Researchers are getting closer to understanding the pathogenesis of one type of age-related macular degeneration.

For men afflicted with type 2 diabetes and at high risk for heart attacks; however, relief might be found in an unlikely source – the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra (sildenafil).

Despite a heightened risk of diabetes, Asian Americans are least likely to be screened for the disease, according to a new study from the University of Chicago.

As bills mounted and reimbursement diminished, doctors grappled with the decision of whether or not to close their private practice.

Research using mouse models demonstrated that a high-fat diet increased intestinal permeability, which led to increases in circulating and local inflammatory cytokines, and increased choroidal neovascularization.

As more men and women who served their country come home their skills can be put to good use in the medical community. Finding those veterans and reservists and getting them the training they need can make all the difference in their life out of uniform.

While medics and corpsmen in the military do similar jobs to what nurses do in civilian practice, those skills do not translate into certification when they leave the service.

When veterans, including medics and corpsmen come back from serving overseas their medical skills do not automatically translate into certification. Colleges and Universities are developing programs to help them and also reservists earn their bachelor of science in nursing degrees.

Analysis of data from a large survey has identified a number of factors that predict depression in women with diabetes and could help physicians provide better care for such patients.

When patients leave the waiting room of their provider, their concerns can go with them. With the help of social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, those concerns can be addressed while information is shared in a new and effective manner.

Even patients on low- to medium-dose inhaled corticosteroids administered over a long period could be at risk for adrenal insufficiency.

A new analysis of data from the Framingham Offspring Study indicated that the consumption of sugary beverages – but not diet beverages – is strongly associated with the progression of insulin resistance and the development of prediabetes.

With ever-growing data that the inflammation in rheumatic conditions can go hand-in-hand with cardiovascular inflammation, two different studies seek to broaden rheumatology’s approach to dangerous conditions it may influence.

When your patients have questions, how do you counteract the onslaught of misinformation and malpractice that exists on the Internet?

The search for newer antimicrobial agents is a focus of those looking to help prevent patients from developing potentially dangerous conditions while admitted to the hospital.

In many hospitals there is a consistent effort to monitor how patients are responding to various treatments. This can be done at different increments which can determine in some cases how effective treatments are against pathogens which can affect a patients' health.

There are more and more challenges facing patients and doctors in hospital settings as "superbugs," or those conditions which are resistant to medications and antibiotics become a greater problem.

Authors of a new study noted that one type of one form of arsenic, trivalent DMA, inhibits insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in cultured fat cells. They considered arsenic exposure a risk factor for type 1 diabetes.

Aiming to investigate the metabolic changes that occur before the onset of non-alcoholic fatty live disease (NAFLD) and type 2 diabetes, researchers found that insulin resistance and waist circumference were associated with NAFLD among women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus (pGDM).

Body heat loss, among other things, triggers “glucose oxidation and turnover and thereby improves glucose tolerance and peripheral glucose intake,” study authors wrote. The cold provokes physiological reactions to create energy to restore body heat.

The study authors believe that properly timed exercise could help patients lower body fat, cardiovascular risk, and the need for medication.

Men have never had the option to take a reversible pharmaceutical form of birth control, like women do, but there have certainly been ongoing efforts to make it a reality.

While technology has come a long way in the treatment of pediatric diabetes, there are still many issues that providers and patients face on a daily basis.

Whether it is a child born with type 1 diabetes or one who develops type 2 diabetes later in life, there is much more that can be done to catch the conditions early and start treatment sooner rather than later.

A large new meta-analysis has examined the connection between exercise and the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes, and it has come to a simple conclusion: the more exercise, the greater the risk reduction.

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Whatever it is called there is mounting evidence that staying active, whether through exercise or other means, is an important part of preventing the development of diabetes as well as overall health in general.

For patients living a sedentary lifestyle, adding a little extra physical activity can go a long way in improving their overall health.