Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 15 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. 
Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatment setting. 
Recurrent Subthreshold Depression in Type 2 Diabetes:
An Important Risk Factor for Poor Health Outcomes
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-1832
 
Physical Activity and Risk of All-Cause and Cardiovascular
Disease Mortality in Diabetic Adults From Great Britain:
Pooled Analysis of 10 Population-Based Cohorts
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-1816
 
Diabetes Prevention in the Real World: Effectiveness of
Pragmatic Lifestyle Interventions for the Prevention of
Type 2 Diabetes and of the Impact of Adherence to
Guideline Recommendations: A Systematic Review and
Meta-analysis
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-2195
 
Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes in Subjects With Prediabetes
and Metabolic Syndrome Treated With Phentermine and
Topiramate Extended Release
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-1518
 
Dietary Sugar and Body Weight: Have We Reached a Crisis in
the Epidemic of Obesity and Diabetes? Health Be Damned!
Pour on the Sugar
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-2085
 
Dietary Sugar and Body Weight: Have We Reached a Crisis in
the Epidemic of Obesity and Diabetes? We Have, but the
Pox on Sugar Is Overwrought and Overworked
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-2506
 
Occurrence of Spontaneous Pancreatic Lesions in Normal
and Diabetic Rats: A Potential Confounding Factor in the
Nonclinical Assessment of GLP-1–Based Therapies
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/db13-1268
For more information about each of ADA’s science and medical journals, please visit www.diabetesjournals.org .     
Presented by: 
Neil S. Skolnik, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine; Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Memorial Hospital. 
John J. Russell, M.D., Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine;  Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Memorial Hospital.