Diabetes

Caregivers can have trouble differentiating ulcerative colitis from Crohn's disease and inflammatory bowel disease.

Pharmacists can play a vital role helping older patients manage their diabetes.

Only 1 in 3 older adults with diabetes meet the American Diabetes Association's treatment targets for blood glucose, cholesterol, and blood pressure.

Here are new drugs for 2015 that pharmacists can expect to handle.

John Moorman, PharmD, BCPS, talks about changes in pharmacy practice to improve patient adherence to diabetes drugs as they move through transitions of care settings.

Pharmacists included in primary care teams improve antihypertensive medication management for patients with type 2 diabetes.

Women with diabetes have a considerably higher risk of developing coronary heart disease than men with diabetes.

This Continuing Education activity is supported by an educational grant from AstraZeneca LP and Novo Nordisk, Inc

This Continuing Education activity is supported by an educational grant from Sanofi-Aventis U.S.

Here are new drugs for 2015 pharmacists can expect to handle.

A study evaluating the cardiovascular safety of Merck's type 2 diabetes drug sitagliptin determined the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor does not increase the risk for heart failure hospitalization.

Jennifer Goldman, PharmD, CDE, BC-ADM, FCCP, professor of pharmacy practice at MCPHS University, discusses some strategies to overcoming patient barriers to insulin.

For each 10 beats per minute increase in heart rate, patients faced a 23% greater risk of diabetes.

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Patients with a fast resting heart rate may have a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Treatment is the first concentrated mealtime insulin analog to be approved by the FDA.

The FDA today approved a new 200 unit/mL formulation of Lilly's Humalog KwikPen for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Drug mitigates elevated cardiovascular risk in infected patients.

Jennifer Goldman, PharmD, CDE, BC-ADM, FCCP, professor of pharmacy practice at MCPHS University, discusses the role pharmacists can play when helping clinicians overcome barriers to initiating insulin use.

Both exercise and calorie restriction have additive beneficial effects.

Ranibizumab (Lucentis), a prescription drug frequently used to treat age-related vision loss, can also improve vision in patients with diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema, a recent study indicated.

Type 2 diabetes drugs could lead to complications that cause hospitalization.

The advantages offered by insulin pens may help improve patient adherence.