Diabetes Update

I've completed the move of my Bloodsugar 101 web site from its old phlaunt.com host to its new updated home at https://bloodsugar101.com.  Bookmarks pointing to the old phlaunt.com-host...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-links-to-new-blood-sugar-101.html

Last week I received a FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System #FreeStyleLibre from Abbott to try out. I have been very interested in this product for quite a while as if it doe...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2017/11/im-testing-freestyle-libre-flash.html

For those of you who don't read my Facebook page, I wanted to let you know that my brand new diabetes book has finally launched.  This is the first completely new health book I've written si...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2017/05/jenny-ruhl-just-published-brand-new.html

Instead of writing new blog posts, which few had been reading, thanks to the demise of blog reader software, I have been posting newsworthy items on the Blood Sugar 101 Facebook Page, which you c...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2016/04/instead-of-writing-new-blog-posts-which.html

I am very happy to announce that I just sent the newly revised and expanded second edition of Blood Sugar 101: What They Don't Tell You About Diabetes to the printer. I hope it will be available ...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-new-expanded-edition-of-blood-sugar.html

We have been hearing for quite a while about the benefits of Novo Nordisk's new, longer acting basal insulin, Tresiba, whose approval was delayed for a year while the FDA waited for cardiovascula...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-newly-approved-basal-insulin.html

Today's diabetes news is focusing on a study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine where the press release states: Results after a median follow-up of about three years illustrated th...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2015/09/cutting-through-jardiance-study-hype-be.html

As most of you may know, Lantus, the most commonly prescribed basal insulin, saw its patent protection expire in February of this year. Several new competitors in the basal insulin niche are wait...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2015/06/toujeo-more-concentrated-version-of.html

As many of you know, a very disturbing study was published in 2013 that documented the pancreatic changes associated with Januvia. It is found here: Marked Expansion of Exocrine and Endocrine Pan...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-latests-study-proving-that-januvia.html

There is so much money in selling gastric bypass that it is no surprise that surgeons have talked a lot of family doctors into believing that this risky operation will cure their patients of Type...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2015/05/more-evidence-that-gastric-bypass-is.html

A new study casts new light on a new reason why the TZD drugs, Avandia and Actos, pack weight on people. This was a side effect that many patients complained about quite vocally online, but docto...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2015/03/study-discovers-how-avandia-and-actos.html

I haven't posted in a while, but there are three news-worthy items that need attention. 1. Afrezza, the super-fast-acting insulin I wrote about after it got FDA approval last year is finally on t...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2015/01/updates-inhaled-insulin-on-market.html

This paper, Effects of intensive glycaemic control on ischaemic heart disease: analysis of data from the randomised, controlled ACCORD trial, was published by the Lancet last week, After ana...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2014/12/accord-final-analysis-lowering-blood.html

Quite a few people have commented that my full-length book, Diet 101: The Truth About Low Carb Diets gives them more information about the science and studies backing up low carb diets than they ...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2014/11/new-one-hour-kindle-short-read-low-carb.html

I'm always looking for new ways to reach people with the "Test, test, test" message. So I have just published a new, 21 page Kindle Short Read on Amazon, Lower Your Blood Sugar: The 30 Minute Gui...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2014/09/new-ebook-099-kindle-short-read-how-to.html

Yesterday after many years of delay, the FDA finally approved Afrezza, a new inhaled insulin. I have been following news about this insulin for a while as quite a few of the claims made for it we...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2014/06/afrezza-new-fast-acting-inhaled-insulin.html

I have not been posting much as there is more than enough on my web site to help visitors understand how to control their diabetes and retain their health.  But today's news featured a diabe...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2014/06/why-insulin-plus-metformin-may-be.html

I've received several worried emails over the past week written in response to a study which is being highlighted by the vegan/low fat/low-carb-diet-haters, who are using it to supposedly prove t...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-latest-scare-study-or-why-eating.html

You've been hearing for decades about how a healthy diet is one that lowers your intake of saturated fats and replaces them with "healthy" unsaturated oils. This, you have been told, will lower y...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2013/11/study-lower-your-cholesterol-and-raise.html

A study recently published in the Annals of Surgery gives much more insight into oft-repeated claims that weight loss surgery cures diabetes. The study can be found here: Can Diabetes Be Sur...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2013/10/study-quantifies-whether-weight-loss.html

UPDATE: May 12, 2014 The FDA issued a warning about Genstrips, telling people not to use them as they are not accurate and the company making them failed quality inspections.  Reviewers on A...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2013/09/generic-test-strips-that-work-in-ultra.html

A two year long study of two DPP-4 inhibitors (one not available in the U.S.) found that these drugs did not, as hoped, lower the risk of heart attack in people with diabetes who took them, and t...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2013/09/onlgyza-appears-to-raise-risk-of-heart.html

I have been getting a lot of email of late about the supplement Berberine, which appears to be the latest miracle cure being sold to those people with diabetes who believe that completely unregul...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2013/08/berberine-works-but-may-very-well-be.html

I'm taking a break from blogging about diabetes news. If something major occurs, I'll blog about it, but I'm not going to be posting minor tidbits anymore. Almost all the news items I've been hig...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2013/07/im-taking-break-from-blogging.html

Jenny said... The FDA is taking another look at Avandia's relationship to heart disease. http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/06/04/battleground-fda-how-tomorrows-avandia-panel-coul...

https://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2013/07/final-june-diabetes-news-snippet-post.html