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…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Finnish researchers report evidence that proliferative diabetic retinopathy, like diabetic nephropathy, clusters in families, suggesting that genetic factors play a role in its…
Thomas Byrne, MD, Director, MUSC Bariatric Surgery Program, Charleston, South Carolina, argues the case for insurance coverage of bariatric surgeries. References and Resources American Society for Metabolic &…
In a recent study, diabetics who took both insulin and other medications for the disease had fewer plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease than other patients. References and Resources…
Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease is a national coalition of patients, providers, community organizations, business and labor groups and health policy experts, committed to raising awareness of policies…
According to a small multi-center, phase II trial reported in NEJM, an investigational targeted drug for some patients with metastatic thyroid cancer can induce partial responses. References and…
Pamela B. Morris, MD, Director, Preventive Cardiology, Co-Director, Women’s Heart Care, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses hormone therapy and the risk of cardiovascular disease in women. References…
John Kratz, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses blood glucose monitoring in the peri-operative period in heart surgery. References and Resources Hovorka R,…
James B. McGuire, DPM, PT, Director, Leonard Abrams Center for Advanced Wound Healing of the Foot and Ankle Institute, Department of Podiatric Medicine and Orthopedics, Temple University School…
The study provides compelling evidence that diets with a high GI or a high GL will increase the risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease. References and…
New research shows an experimental model based on transplanting Islets of Langerhan cells onto the anterior chamber of the mouse eye. This may pave the way for radical…
