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Diabetic Retinopathy Risk Drops With Diet Rich in Marine PUFAs At least two meals per week containing oily fish, rich in omega-3 fatty acids, seems enough to cut the risk by almost half in people with type 2 diabetes, suggests a post hoc analysis of a major trial.
Medscape Medical News, August 19, 2016

ACCORD: Do Genes Explain Deaths in Intensive-Control Arm? Two genetic variants may explain the paradoxical increased mortality risk seen in type 2 diabetes patients undergoing intensive glycemic control in the ACCORD trial, a new genomewide analysis suggests.
Medscape Medical News, August 23, 2016
Oral Contraceptives Don't Impair Sexual Function, at Least Overall Still, use of a levonorgestrel-based contraceptive in a trial had modest but significant adverse effects on measures of arousal and pleasure, and "for individual women, we believe it could be of clinical importance."
Medscape Medical News, August 19, 2016
Delay in Intensified Therapy Common After Metformin Failure About a third of patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes who don't achieve glycemic targets on metformin are not prescribed a second drug within 6 months, suggests an analysis.
Medscape Medical News, August 19, 2016
LixiLan-O: Mixed Fixed-Dose Injection Improves Glycemic Control The trial found control to be better with a fixed-ratio combination of insulin plus a GLP-1 receptor agonist compared with either alone without upping the risk of either hypoglycemia or weight gain.
Medscape Medical News, August 19, 2016

Prematurity Should Not Preclude Genetic Testing for Neonatal Diabetes
Reuters Health Information, August 22, 2016
Pancreatic Cancer Cells Find Unique Fuel Source to Thrive
Reuters Health Information, August 19, 2016
Britain Launches Soft Drinks Sugar Tax to Fight Obesity
Reuters Health Information, August 19, 2016
Topical Antibiotics Unnecessary for Intravitreous Injections
Reuters Health Information, August 19, 2016
Longer Duration of Overweight Increases Cancer Risk in Women
Medscape Medical News, August 19, 2016
New Menopause Guidelines Update HT Safety Evidence
Medscape Medical News, August 18, 2016
Thyroid Cancer Overdiagnosis in Half a Million Patients
Medscape Medical News, August 18, 2016
TV Food Commercials Stimulate Reward Centers in Kids' Brains
Medscape Medical News, August 17, 2016

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Diabetes Drugs: The Latest Good -- and Bad -- News Dr Anne Peters discusses hot topics in type 2 diabetes treatment: liraglutide shows CV benefits, whereas some SGLT2 inhibitors show renal protection -- and potential harm.
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, August 16, 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
SPRINTing to a Lower Blood Pressure Target Drs Black and Wright talk about the importance of the SPRINT trial and what we can learn from the newest data.
Medscape Cardiology, August 15, 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

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Physicians Score Antitrust Settlement With Health System Independent physicians had sued Health First in Florida, saying they were economically punished for not referring patients to the system and otherwise not 'playing ball.'
Medscape Medical News, August 19, 2016
Volume of Electronic Prescriptions Continues to Rise
Medscape Medical News, August 17, 2016
'King of Nursing Homes' Gets 2 Years for Taking Kickbacks
Medscape Medical News, August 16, 2016
ACA Risk Pools Less Risky in 2015, CMS Says
Medscape Medical News, August 12, 2016

Improving Clinical Outcomes With Mobile Health With the widespread use of cell phones, mobile health is one solution that healthcare providers can utilize to improve clinical outcomes.
Medscape Business of Medicine, August 23, 2016
Beating Burnout: Advice From Physician Experts Many doctors are exasperated and depressed from all of the pressures and demands they face. The nation's leading physician experts give advice on how to solve the problem.
Medscape Business of Medicine, August 22, 2016

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Diabetes Drugs: The Latest Good -- and Bad -- News Dr Anne Peters discusses hot topics in type 2 diabetes treatment: liraglutide shows CV benefits, whereas some SGLT2 inhibitors show renal protection -- and potential harm.
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, August 16, 2016
Fitness, Fatness, and Risk for Diabetes
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, August 17, 2016
Why Do Black Americans Have Higher A1c Levels Than Whites?
August 17, 2016
Teens and Performance-Enhancing Drugs: A Bigger Problem Than We Think
Medscape Pediatrics, August 15, 2016