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Steve, Andrew and I would like to extend a warm thanks to all the educators who stopped by our booth at the AADE meeting in Indianapolis. We are especially thankful to those of you who took the time to be interviewed by our publisher, and to the faculty and students from Butler University College of Pharmacy who worked in our booth.
We are reviewing a very interesting presentation about the value of diabetes education and the use of motivational interviewing and will be making this available to you soon.
Many of the presentations were focused on intensifying diabetes therapy from the start and it made me think back to a time when we moved so slowly at managing diabetes that we would wait six months before we even started metformin. Now a new study published in Clinical Endocrinology suggests that some drug-naive type 2 diabetic patients would benefit from early initial combination therapy of sitagliptin and metformim. This study will probably be one of many indicating we should get even more aggressive with our newly diagnosed patients.
The way the weather has been going this summer you may want to check out our new product – it's a new device that will keep your insulin cold for 3 to 5 days using the latest innovative technology.
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Announcements:
dLife.com: August 5, 7PM ET on CNBC
Topics: A look at diabetes nerve damage and treatments available to ease the pain. And Jim Turner gives a first-hand account of how it feels to have a blood sugar low. Sundays on CNBC at 7 PM ET, 6 PM CT, and 4 PM PT. Catch up on dLife.com.
TCOYD CME Conference, Missoula, Montana, Saturday, September 8, 2012
The TCOYD Continuing Medical Education Program offers a unique opportunity to bridge patient and professional education, demonstrating the link between clinical lessons in the classroom to the real life patient experience. Find out more here.
Please answer this week's poll: Would you like to see short videos from diabetes experts?
Vote in and then see results from previous polls here.
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Dave Joffe, Editor-in-chief
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