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Diabetes in pregnancy can impact both mother and child. Two experts at this year’s Diabetes UK Professional Conference covered the link between gestational diabetes and stillbirth, and how to prepare w...

Diabetes was identified as a risk factor for poor prognosis of COVID-19 early on in the pandemic. Research is now revealing a more nuanced association between levels of risk and phenotypic characteristics &n...

Metformin is used in pregnancy but there are still knowledge gaps. Here’s what we do and don’t know…

Surgical intervention to help manage or even reverse type 2 diabetes has become well established over the last two decades. In the first module in EASD e-Learning’s latest course, ‘Metabolic surg...

Healthcare providers need tools to help personalise care for people living with diabetes, so they can achieve better outcomes and quality of life. But as attendees at this year’s Precision Medicine Dia...

Changes are afoot on the e-Learning platform – all aimed at making it easier for you to let us know what you think about our courses and alert us to any technical problems.

With the second COVID-19-era Ramadan now ended, Professor Wasim Hanif presents detailed guidance on supporting people with diabetes to fast safely during a pandemic.

Continuing the EASD e-Learning Insulin@100 series, Professor Eelco de Koning turns to the subject of physiological insulin replacement by transplantation.

This year marks the second Ramadan carried out under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is an event that already comes with additional layers of risk for Muslims with diabetes, as Dr Sarah Ali, consulta...

Awareness among healthcare professionals and the importance of education and discussion with patients were key points in a survey of issues around hypoglycaemia and how to fast safely during Ramadan at the S...

Primary care is an ideal place to identify hypoglycaemia and help patients to avoid it in the future, according to the latest Primary Care Diabetes Europe (PCDE) webinar

Sometimes seen as the price you pay for good glycaemic control, hypoglycaemia can have a profoundly damaging impact on the lives and wellbeing of many people on insulin and other glucose-lowering therapies.&...

Transplantation conference hears calls for an end to the notion of islet transplantation as experimental therapy, to be dealt with separately from whole pancreas transplantation in national allocation polici...

In lock step with the pandemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes, another, less talked about condition is on the rise: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Links between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and type 2 diabetes loomed large at the Paris Hepatology Conference in March, as did the potential use of diabetes treatments to counter the rise of th...

EASD e-Learning’s latest initiative, ‘The long and the short it’, launches today.

Are DCD donors the solution to boosting islet transplantations?

The importance of involving patients in their own care and ensuring that their voices are heard was the theme of three presentations within the Patients Inclusion Initiative, a joint EPITA/EDTCO/ETAHP sympos...

A study published last May in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), which described morphological and molecular changes in the lungs of people who died from COVID-19, is now cited as a turning point in...

COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on islet and pancreas transplantation, with many centres suspending their programmes and major reductions in organ retrievals. On day one of the 11th European Pancreas a...

This week the EASD e-Learning platform is launching a new section on its site. Called ‘Horizons’, the section aims to be a more user-friendly central place where our learners can get diabete...