Over the past few weeks Dr. Stanley Schwartz has been looking at the causes and reasons that insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia go crazy when a patient develops diabetes. This week, in the last part of the series, he brings to light the use of a couple of older medications and …

Joseph Houmard, PhD, talks about how because diet is deemed so important in weight management that people often write off the benefits of exercise. He also talks about some of the various exercise strategies but notes that the best one is always the one that the patient will actually do. …

With this week’s Homerun Slides, we discuss several medication therapies and their effects on insulin resistance including bromocriptine, a "new" drug that has actually been around a long time….

A woman, 59 years of age, was diagnosed with diabetes while in the hospital. She was discharged on basal bolus insulin. The diabetes educator (CDE) was contacted to teach insulin administration via insulin pens upon discharge. The patient was taught, and performed return demonstration correctly. She was sent home with …