Diabetes & Endocrinology

Diabetes & Endocrinology News

Diabetic Kidney Disease Changes Course, New Research Needed New NHANES data suggest the natural history of diabetic kidney disease has changed over the past 30 years: overall prevalence stayed about the same; albuminuria decreased, but reduced eGFR increased.
Medscape Medical News, August 10, 2016

Diabetes Linked to Earlier Death, Including From Cancer Individuals with diabetes face an increased risk of death from cancer and other serious diseases, as well as from cardiovascular complications, the results of a large pooled data analysis suggest.
Medscape Medical News, August 11, 2016
Do the Health Benefits of Pokemon Go Outweigh the Risks? The media has played up the dangers of the wildly popular game, but its health benefits may be less obvious.
Medscape Medical News, August 10, 2016
Get Moving: High Physical-Activity Level Reduces Risk of 5 Diseases The greatest risk reduction for diabetes, cancers, heart disease, and stroke is seen at higher activity levels than those recommended by the World Health Organization.
Medscape Medical News, August 10, 2016
Levothyroxine for Subclinical Hypothyroidism in Pregnancy Pregnant women who take levothyroxine for subclinical hypothyroidism have a lower risk of having a low-birth-weight baby and/or one with a low Apgar score, suggesting levothyroxine is beneficial.
Medscape Medical News, August 9, 2016

New Metformin Rule 'Makes Me Incredibly Happy' New prescribing guidelines for metformin will make clinicians' lives easier, and they are good for patients, too, says Dr Anne Peters.
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, June 8, 2016
Following in My Footsteps: A Dad Reflects on His MD Kids For Father's Day, a physician reflects on what it's like to have raised two future physicians.
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, June 17, 2016
CV Triggers Are in the Very Air We Breathe Drs Brook and Black discuss the health effects of air pollution, the majority of which are cardiovascular events.
Medscape Cardiology, July 14, 2016
Iconoclastic Breast Surgeon Laura Esserman Challenges the Status Quo From screening to treatment, breast cancer specialist Laura Esserman is on a quest to individualize patient care, and in doing so she is challenging a number of long-standing practices in cancer care.
Medscape, August 8, 2016
Is A1c Variability a Useful Measure in Diabetes? Fluctuations in glycated hemoglobin levels have been suggested as an independent risk factor for diabetic complications, but new studies cast doubts on that concept.
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, March 21, 2016
Diabetes Patients Design Their Own 'Artificial Pancreas' Tired of waiting for a long-promised 'artificial pancreas,' people with type 1 diabetes take matters into their own hands and create makeshift closed-loop systems to manage their glucose levels.
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, April 21, 2016

Psychotropic Drugs for Woes of Surviving Testicular CancerThe cure of testicular cancer is one of the great success stories of cancer research, but young survivors carry the burden of heavy morbidity from cisplatin chemotherapy for the rest of their lives.
Medscape Oncology
The Unique Gender Profiles of Alzheimer Disease
Medscape Neurology
Why You Might Want to Screen More Patients for Hepatitis C
Medscape Ob/Gyn
Patient's Relapsing IBD Prompts Closer Look at Her Prior Flares
Medscape Gastroenterology

Survey: Specialty Chosen by More Than Salary, Despite Debt Family and general medicine were the most popular specialties selected by students, according to a new Medscape survey.
Medscape Medical News, August 11, 2016
ACA Curbs Formation of New Physician-Owned Hospitals
Medscape Medical News, August 10, 2016
Pill Mill Doctor to Serve Jail Time
Medscape Medical News, August 9, 2016
New Overtime Regs Could Boost Overhead for Many Physicians
Medscape Medical News, August 9, 2016

States Where Doctors Are Least Likely to Get Sued Where are the lowest percentages of lawsuits?; Foot-dragging blamed for patient's lost leg; Did this surgeon ignore his patient's wishes?
Medscape Business of Medicine, August 11, 2016
Is Burnout Crushing Your Spirit? Here's Help Many of the stressors of modern-day medicine would probably seem foreign to doctors of past generations. But they're here to stay, experts say. Here's how to adapt and cope as best as you can.
Medscape Business of Medicine, August 10, 2016

Eric J. Topol, MD Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health; Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute; Senior Consultant, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape