Posts Tagged ‘patients’

Pilot study supports adolescent diabetes patients through personalized text messages
Jennifer Dyer, MD, MPH, an endocrinologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, has developed and completed a pilot study that uses weekly, customized text messages to remind adolescent diabetes patients about their personal treatment activities. At the conclusion of the study, Dr. Dyer found an increase in overall treatment adherence and improved blood glucose levels.

Insulin therapy study recruits 60,000 patients
Kolkata, July 20 : Novo Nordisk, a leading healthcare company, on Tueesday announced the recruitment of the 60,000th patient in the A1chieve study – an observational study designed to investigate the effects of modern insulins in the management of type 2 diabetes.

Listen to Patrick Boyle, MD, lead physician of Diabetes Care Management at the University of New Mexico and a well-known endocrinologist thought leader, provide the key elements for successful pramlintide initiation and titration for your type 1 diabetes patients, as well as some clinical pearls on how to avoid the various barriers and pitfalls you may encounter. Provided by the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Disease (iDOC), a free resource for continuing medical education and other tools for medical professionals focused on the treatment of these three related conditions. Visit www.idoc.org for more information.

Research shows promising targeted therapies for type 2 diabetes patients
Named for the furballs whose astonishing fecundity made them stars in early Star Trek episodes, the tribbles protein, first identified in fruit flies, aids in regulating many cell processes in humans. Joslin Diabetes Center researchers now have identified mechanisms triggered by a variant of the tribbles gene that cause trouble in insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells—and that offer a …

Hospital gear helps weight-loss patients
Jean Kielhold, right, supervises as fellow dietician Susan Sendejas tests a calorimeter. In 10 minutes, Jean Kielhold can calculate and determine a person’s energy consumption and body mass index, based on a breathing test.

Improved Outcomes for Patients Treated With Lantus(R) and Apidra(R) Regimen Compared With Sliding Scale Insulin
PARIS, FRANCE–(Marketwire – 06/25/10) – Sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN) (NYSE: SNY – News ) announced today that results from the RA ndomized Study of B asal B olus I nsulin T herapy in the Inpatient Management of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Undergoing General Surgery (RABBIT-2 Surgery) found that treatment with a basal-bolus regimen that included Lantus (insulin glargine [rDNA origin …

Negative impact of depression on glycemic control in type 2 diabetes patients
In this German prospective representative study of patients with type 2 diabetes, baseline depression predicted problems with medication adherence, problems with health-related behaviors, and unsatisfactory glycemic control at follow-up.