The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved insulin lispro-aabc injection, 100 units/mL and 200 units/mL, a new rapid-acting insulin indicated to improve glycemic control in adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Eli Lilly and Company is marketing the drug as Lyumjev™. Lyumjev is a novel formulation of insulin lispro, developed to...
Virtual Endocrinology: The Rise of Telemedicine During COVID-19
How clinicians treat patients has been drastically reimagined during the COVID-19 pandemic due to social distancing requirements. Since patients still need to see their doctors one way or another, telemedicine has filled the gap and has been embraced by both the healthcare community and patients alike. Chirag R. Kapadia, MD, is an endocrinologist at Phoenix...Viral Load: A Look at One Endocrinologist’s Practice During the COVID-19 Crisis
Via an online video conference with Endocrine News, Mihail “Misha” Zilbermint, MD, discusses how the COVID-19 virus has changed the way he practices medicine in a hospital setting, and how his approach to treating patients may be changed forever. One of the common terms that has been used to describe everything from the way... In January, Endocrine News reported on the possible upcoming availability of teprotumumab as a promising treatment for of thyroid eye disease (TED), a serious, progressive and vision-threatening rare autoimmune disease that is associated with proptosis (eye bulging), diplopia (double vision), blurred vision, pain, inflammation, and facial disfigurement. Up to 50% of patients with Graves’ disease...
Diabetes Drug Reduces Complications of Long-Term Steroid Therapy
A drug used to treat type 2 diabetes could offer a simple and cheap solution to reduce dangerous side effects of steroid treatment, new research from Queen Mary University of London suggests. The phase 2 clinical trial, funded by Barts Charity, looked at the effects of the diabetes drug metformin on patients currently receiving high...
Endocrine News gets the patient and physician perspective on thyroid eye disease. Patients discuss how it has affected their lives and clinicians explain the limited treatment choices. However, new options may be available soon. Christine Gustafson, of Monterey, Calif., swam a mile a day and biked everywhere she went. When she noticed her heart was...
It helps to be able to “talk the talk” and make the business case as well as the clinical case for new expenses. Healthcare is one of the sectors where technical innovation is taking place at a break-neck pace. A practice that is slow to adapt will be slow to catch up to an everchanging...E-Consults: Increasing the Efficiency and Efficacy of the Referral Process
One useful piece of innovation that can more effectively enhance a clinical setting is the use of E-consults, which has shown an increase in satisfaction by both patients and clinicians alike. As clinicians continue to strive for more innovative ways to “take back their practices,” one method that proved remarkably successful in the San Francisco...
