Hiva Kolodrubetz, NP, provides an engaging and detailed session on anti-diabetic medications, focusing on safe prescribing and effective management strategies. Highlighting pharmacological mechanisms, A1C goals, and patient-centered care,…
Associate Professor Mike Todorovic, AKA “Dr. Mike”, introduces the endocrine system, explaining how hormones act as chemical messengers released into the bloodstream by cells, tissues, and glands. He…
Thomas K. Byrne, MD, Professor General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medical University of South California, discusses obesity and surgery. The criteria for surgery are a BMI over 40 plus…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pain associated with diabetic neuropathy is improved to a similar degree with daily amitriptyline or duloxetine, according to the results of a cross-over…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As well as improving HbA1c, continuous glucose monitoring reduces the time spent in hypoglycemia for children and adults with type 1 diabetes on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with type 2 diabetes have better glycemic control and less nausea when exenatide is given weekly rather than twice daily, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -– A point-of-care test for beta-hydroxybutyrate in capillary blood is more specific than a urine dipstick for ketones in identifying diabetic ketoacidosis in emergency-department…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For women with thyroid cancer treated with radioiodine-131, subsequent pregnancy is safe without adverse outcomes for the offspring. That’s according to a report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians recommends strongly against the use of intensive insulin therapy to normalize high…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In older adults, mean serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D are somewhat higher after a year of taking cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) compared to ergocalciferol…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a randomized, single-center study of critically ill patients in an intensive care unit, permissive enteral underfeeding was associated with lower morbidity and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Research shows that biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) significantly reduces renal and cardiovascular complications over 10 years in morbidly obese individuals with newly diagnosed type…
