Miriam E. Tucker

News

Weight Loss Treatments Beyond the Reach of Many in Need

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: November 18, 2024

“The implications are that structural barriers impede access to medications for Black and Hispanic adults with obesity, which might worsen if there...

News

Do Patients on Anti-Obesity Drugs Decrease Alcohol Use?

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: November 8, 2024

This new study is the first to examine the relationship with different classes of anti-obesity medications and to quantify the amount of alcohol co...

News

Knowledge Gaps About Obesity Medicine Seen in Primary Care

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: November 7, 2024

“The treatment of obesity as a disease, especially with some of the newer medical treatments, is not standard of care and practiced widely.”

News

Coming Soon: A New Disease Definition, ‘Clinical Obesity’

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: November 5, 2024

“I think it’ll help explain and move medicine as a whole in a direction to a greater understanding of obesity actually being a disease, how to defi...

News

American Diabetes Association Advises on Hospital CGM Use

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: October 29, 2024

Policies for patient-owned and hospital-owned CGM devices should be developed, and staff should be trained in their use, the statement said.

News

Can Restricting Carbohydrates Cut the Need for Medication in T2D?

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: October 23, 2024

“Our results are the first to show that dietary carbohydrate restriction can improve beta-cell function,” said study author Marian L. Yurchishin.

News

Group Aims to Better Define ‘Extraordinarily Heterogeneous’ Mast Cell Activation Syndrome

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: October 15, 2024

There is controversy over the diagnostic criteria, with one proposed definition placing it at the center of many other co-occurring complex, chroni...

News

First Patient-Derived Stem Cell Transplant a Success in T1D

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: October 3, 2024

The use of the patient’s own cells is one way in which this approach differs from other ongoing efforts in treating T1D with pluripotent stem cell–...

News

Air Travel Alters Insulin Pump Delivery on Takeoff, Landing

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: September 27, 2024

The phenomenon is due to air bubble formation and reabsorption in the insulin caused by ambient pressure changes in the airplane’s cabin.

News

‘Call to Action’: Greater CVD Focus Urged for Type 1 Diabetes

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: September 27, 2024

Cardiovascular risk factors such as dyslipidemia and hypertension are also important to manage in type 1 diabetes.

News

Guidance Will Aid Pediatric to Adult Diabetes Care Transfer

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: September 19, 2024

The care transition period is critical because “adolescents and young adults are the least likely of all age groups to achieve glycemic targets for...

News

First Non-Prescription Continuous Glucose Monitor Launches

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: August 26, 2024

The first OTC CGM for people with T2D who don’t use insulin or who have prediabetes is available for $99 a month.

News

Research Could Bring ‘New Era’ in Insulin

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: August 19, 2024

Six new research projects aim to improve insulin therapy, helping patients with T1D to better manage their disease.

News

What Every Provider Should Know About Type 1 Diabetes

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: August 16, 2024

Patients with T1D are more insulin sensitive than those with type 2 and more prone to both hyper- and hypoglycemia.

News

As CGM Benefit Data Accrue, Primary Care Use Expands

Author:: Miriam E. Tucker

Publish date: August 14, 2024

To deal with systemic inequity in prescription processes, measures such as improving prescription workflows, supporting prior authorization, and us...