Second Diabetic Foot Seminar: Cyprus, 26 January 2008.
The 2nd Diabetic Foot Seminar in Cyprus was organised by the Cyprus Association of Internal Medicine, Cyprus Association of Diabetologists, and Cypriot Society of Podiatrists and was held at the University of Nicosia. Numerous distinguished guests were invited to the seminar, and their presence turned out to...

Clinical practice prompts research in Kenya.
Dr. Nell Eisenberg signed on with Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) because, she said, "I wanted to see how medicine was practiced in a completely different setting." Dr. Eisenberg trained in internal medicine at Columbia University, New York. After her residency, she spent 4 years...

Medicine's best kept 'secret'.
Dr. Marc F. Stern says he feels safer as an internist working in correctional settings than he did in his previous career working for the Veterans Affairs health system. In that setting, he said, one patient pulled a machete on him in the emergency department. Another tried...

Medicine's best kept 'secret'.
Dr. Marc F. Stern says he feels safer as an internist working in correctional settings than he did in his previous career working for the Veterans Affairs health system. In that setting, he said, one patient pulled a machete on him in the emergency department. Another tried...

Medicine's best-kept secret.
Dr. Marc F. Stern says he feels safer l as an internist working in correctional settings than he did in his previous career working for the Veterans Affairs health system. In that setting, he said, one patient pulled a machete on him in the emergency department. Another...

Newly built Bulacan hospital inaugurated.
Ermita was assisted by Bulacan Gov. Joselito "JonJon" Mendoza and other provincial officials in presiding over the ceremonies for the opening of the new hospital, the first such health facility in the country to be managed by a provincial government. In his speech, Ermita said that he...

Don't let winter diseases keep you down for long.
Byline: Writankar Mukherjee KOLKATA: Now that winter's bitter cold is all set to make way for spring, it's time when people start falling prey to influenza viruses. It is also the time when the season change often triggers other diseases such as chest infection, throat infection, bronchitis...

More drugs for type 2 expected on market soon.
PHILADELPHIA -- The number of incretins available to treat type 2 diabetes is set to expand in the near future, said Dr. Marie E. Mc Donnell, director of inpatient diabetes at Boston Medical Center. Liraglutide, a once weekly formulation of exenatide (Byetta), is currently under investigation; exenatide...

BP may mediate MI risk more than sugar levels.
PHILADELPHIA -- Lowering blood pressure might be more effective than lowering blood sugar alone for reducing the risk of cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetes patients, according to Dr. George J. Philippides, director of the coronary care unit at Boston Medical Center. Reducing blood pressure in patients...

Enhance reflects limited population.
I treat my patients to goal numbers. The ENHANCE study findings only show me that in an unfortunate genetic group, not treating to goal does not result in any benefit ("After ENHANCE, Next Step on Vytorin Weighed," Feb. 15, 2008, p. 30, and "Looking Beyond the Ezetimibe Community," Guest...