Diabetes & Endocrinology Experts & Viewpoints

Icyou: How Social Media Is the New Resource for Online Health Information Prerna Mona Khanna, MD, MPH, Medical Editor, Icyou.com, Charleston, South Carolina, describes another promising use of the health Internet.
Commentary, May 2008
Retirement May Be Hazardous to Your Health Retirement may be hazardous to your health.
Commentary, May 2008
Insulin Pump Safety Dr. Anne Peters is a big fan of insulin pumps, but they are not for everybody, as she discusses in this videoblog.
Commentary, May 2008
Congress Passes Genetic Privacy Bill In this videoblog, Dr. Eric Topol updates us on some of the details and discusses what this might mean for the future if it is signed into law.
Commentary, May 2008
Regional Anesthesia, Compression, and Aspirin Is the Safest Form of Prophylaxis for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Regional anesthesia, compression, and aspirin is the safest form of prophylaxis for hip and knee arthroplasty.
Commentary, May 2008
Vitamin D and the Diabetic Patient Daniel W. Coyne, MD, Professor of Medicine at Washington University, describes the consequences of low vitamin D and the potential to increase the risk for diabetes mellitus.
Expert Column, April 2008
MRI Is the New Gold Standard for Excluding Cervical Spine Injury in Patients With Blunt Trauma MRI is the new gold standard for conclusively excluding cervical spine injury in patients with blunt trauma.
Commentary, April 2008
Beyond Statins, Beyond LDL Cholesterol -- an Old Drug, New Targets: An Expert Interview With Christie M. Ballantyne, MD ACC.08: Statins are wonderful drugs, but what else is there? After torcetrapib's failure it will be years before another drug class is approved, so is niacin the next best? How and when can we use it?
Expert Interview, April 2008
Obesity-Related Diabetes: Should All Recently Diagnosed Patients Have Bariatric Surgery? Commentary on a study on obesity-related diabetes and bariatric surgery, published January 23, 2008 in JAMA
Commentary, April 2008
Is There a Link Between Diabetes and Glaucoma? The LALES study investigated the prevalence of diabetes and open-angle glaucoma in a Hispanic-American population.
Commentary, April 2008

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Vitamin D and the Diabetic Patient Daniel W. Coyne, MD, Professor of Medicine at Washington University, describes the consequences of low vitamin D and the potential to increase the risk for diabetes mellitus.
Expert Column, April 2008

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