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Standards of Care in Overweight and Obesity updates help optimize care for patients and clinicians
Louis J. Aronne, MD, DABOM, and Kim Gudzune, MD, MPH, led an overview of the newly developed guidance, which provides clinicians, researchers, policy makers, and others with the components of obesity care, general treatment goals, and tools to evaluate the quality of care.
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Investigators spotlight innovative bioengineering efforts for beta cell replacement therapy
Michael R. Rickels, MD, MS, and others shared results from FORWARD-101, which studied an investigational stem cell-derived, fully differentiated islet cell therapy for people with type 1 diabetes with impaired hypoglycemic awareness and severe hypoglycemic events.
Scientific Sessions Newsmakers
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Diabetes Care Symposium examines how to fix a health care system driven by drug prices
Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, and other panelists discussed the challenges facing the U.S. health care system and how policy changes could address them.
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Monoclonal antibody-peptide conjugate demonstrates efficacy as once-monthly treatment for obesity
Researchers, including Ania M. Jastreboff, MD, PhD, detailed the results of a phase 2 study of maridebart cafraglutide for inducing weight loss in adults living with obesity, with or without type 2 diabetes.
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BELIEVE spotlights quality and quantity approach to weight management with combo therapy
Steven B. Heymsfield, MD, and other panelists discussed how bimagrumab can preserve the weight reduction seen with semaglutide while also improving body composition.
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Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award lecturer shares an unexpected journey into the field of diabetes by way of brown fat
Shingo Kajimura, PhD, explained how his curiosity about surviving cold Michigan winters led to the discovery that brown fat is a potent metabolic regulator that can control insulin and glucose levels independent of thermogenesis and independent of the canonical uncoupling protein 1 pathway.
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Kelly West Award recipient combines data-driven knowledge with care
In her award lecture, epidemiologist Juliana C.N. Chan, MBChB, MD, FHKAM, FHKCP, FRCP, detailed her decades of data-driven research and her personal experience working with patients in a major metropolis transformed by global modernization.
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QWINT signals paradigm shift for basal insulin dosing in type 2 diabetes
Chantal Mathieu, MD, PhD, and other investigators reported on findings from three QWINT studies. Efsitora alfa is now the second long-acting, once-weekly insulin analog that has been evaluated in robust phase 3 studies and proven to be non-inferior to daily insulins.