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There is still time to sign up to this year’s Hypo Awareness Week, which aims to raise awareness of hypoglycaemia among healthcare workers in hospitals and primary care sites. Registrations are still ...

A case study has been published on the treatment of Fusarium osteomyelitis in an immunocompromised patient. Diabetic foot osteomyelitis (DFO) is a severe complication of diabetic foot ulcerations (DFU...

Healthcare professionals with an interest in diabetes are being encouraged to register for this year’s Diabetes Professional Care (DPC) conference. The two-day event is set to return later this year a...

The impact of Hypo Awareness Week in hospitals will be measured with the launch of a national Hypo Audit. Hypo Awareness Week is an annual campaign designed to improve the awareness, education and man...

New advice has been issued for healthcare professionals treating patients on metformin who may be at risk of vitamin B12 deficiency. Decreased vitamin B12 levels, or vitamin B12 deficiency, is now con...

Concise advice on how an individual’s frailty phenotype influences what glucose-lowering therapy they should use is now available.  According to researchers from the Foundation for Diabetes Research i...

Important trends in footcare have been highlighted in an interval review from the National Diabetes Foot Care Audit (NDFA). The report uses data from just over 108,000 foot ulcer episodes in 76,310 pe...

Healthcare professionals with a broad range of diabetes experience are being sought to join a top multidisciplinary advisory body. Diabetes UK is looking for several specialists to join the charity’s ...

The Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care (JBDS-IP) used newly available evidence and expert consensus to update the ‘Management of adults with diabetes on dialysis’ guideline. The lates...