About a year ago one of my pharmacist colleagues called me and was complaining about his blood glucose levels. At the age of 37 he had developed diabetes and was placed on metformin. His glucose improved and he went on a wellness program. After three months he had not lost …

With this week’s Homerun Slides, we start a short new series on Insulin Resistance put together by Dr. Stanley Schwartz. We begin with a quick overview of the traditional view of the natural history of diabetes as compared to Dr. Schwartz’s newer beta-cell centric model…. To download the complete set …

David Levy, MD, FRCP Introduction The pharmacological management of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes remains the most contentious area of diabetes management, and although until relatively recently in the USA the only agents to treat blood glucose were insulin and sulphonylureas, this limited repertoire in no way inhibited the controversy, …