Integrity in Medicine
It takes a special person to care for people during their most vulnerable states, to keep intimate...
Read MoreNov 26, 2021
It takes a special person to care for people during their most vulnerable states, to keep intimate...
Read MoreNov 26, 2021
During a recent PW Podcast, Rachel Giles, MD, from Medicom Medical Publishers, spoke with Graham McMahon, MD, MMSc, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)...
Read MoreOct 1, 2021
With the use of video on the rise in court cases, attor- neys are also more sophisticated about tapping into its influence. But the legal standards regarding rules of evidence about a video’s credibility and authenticity are...
Read MoreSep 10, 2021
It’s your first real vacation in 2 years and the cabin loudspeaker comes on: “Is there a doctor on board?” Now what? Ethically, if you can help, you should help, but there is no duty to an ill or injured passenger to compel your...
Read MoreJul 23, 2021
In Silicon Valley, the concept of friction is the idea that you must remove every bit of inconvenience or work that gets in the way of a digital interaction. It’s about making things as easy as possible to get done. I’ve been...
Read MoreJul 22, 2021
Latinx English-speaking participants had less positive attitudes toward general and diabetes tech- nology than Latinx Spanish-speaking and non- Latinx English-speaking peers, and differences in continuous glucose monitor (CGM)...
Read MoreJul 22, 2021
For adults newly diagnosed with T2DM, delays to first-line therapy are longest for older patients, those who are Black or of other minority eth- nicities, and those with multimorbidity, accord- ing to a study published in...
Read MoreJul 22, 2021
To optimize the management of diabetes, the long-term risks of associated complications must be balanced with risks for hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia. “Because the short-term consequences of diabetes can result in immediate...
Read MoreJun 28, 2021
A study suggests that virtual reality cinema education may be an innovative approach to improve cultural self-efficacy and diabetes attitudes among healthcare professionals and administrators. According to recent data, diabetes...
Read MoreJun 28, 2021
Carbohydrate-counting smartphone apps may be a useful adjunct for estimating carbohydrate content, according to a study published in Diabetes Therapy. Investigators conducted a study to evaluate the accuracy of two...
Read MoreJun 28, 2021
Machine learning models can provide promising results for the task of predicting current A1C levels, according to a study published in JMIR Medical Informatics. Researchers investigated the performance of predictive models to...
Read MoreMay 27, 2021
A novel kinetic model that takes into account red blood cell (RBC) turnover, cross-membrane glucose transport, and hemoglobin glycation processes to individualize the relationship between glucose levels and A1C accurately...
Read MoreMay 26, 2021
An insulin infusion computer calculator appears to be safe and effective in a wide variety of clinical situations and was able to be successfully transitioned from a Web-based platform directly into the electronic medication...
Read MoreMay 6, 2021
Use of mobile health (mHealth) apps—which include mobile computing, medical sensors, and communications technologies used for healthcare services—by patients with diabe-tes, when compared with nonuse, results in better health...
Read MoreMay 6, 2021
Researchers have newly developed a reinforce-ment learning (RL)-based artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that calculates the amount of in-sulin required by a patient with diabetes and au-tomatically injects it, according to...
Read MoreMay 6, 2021
Study results suggest that long-acting insulin analogs appears to cut risk of severe hypoglycemia in Medicare patients with type 2 diabetes. Medicare beneficiaries with type 2 diabetes appeared to have a lower risk of emergency...
Read MoreMay 4, 2021
A s a palliative care doctor in NYC during the beginning of the pandemic, my typical greeting response of “I’m fine” was speedily replaced with “I’m hanging in there.” It seemed slightly less false (because who’s really “fine”...
Read MoreApr 5, 2021
For a study published in Diabetes Care, Elias K. Spanakis, MD, and colleagues evaluated the use of glucose telemetry in hospitalized patients with diabetes. “This system is based on real-time continuous glucose monitoring...
Read MoreMar 1, 2021
The Oregon Medical Board suspended the license of family practitioner Steven Latulippe for what it called “unprofessional or dishonorable conduct.” The board said his behavior was “an immediate danger to the public.” His...
Read MoreFeb 23, 2021
The following was originally posted on February 6 by Kelly Cawcutt, MD, to her personal blog at...
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