I am willing to guess that if Pharma did not produce tools for patients, we would all have a harder time delivering information. When I look back at some of the handouts from the ’90s, it is amazing how much better the current ones are. There is much more focus …

Woman, 86 years of age, very active, history of type 2 diabetes, but does not check glucose or even admit she has diabetes. She has refused to take any medications at all for the last 20+ years I’ve known her. Had gastroenteritis for 3 days. Even when well, she does not drink anything but coffee, and sometimes sugar-sweetened beverages, but only a few ounces of that at a time.

In part 2 of this Exclusive Interview, Blandine Lacroix shares the tools that Novo Nordisk provides to help practitioners as well as patients with the disease of obesity, including websites that share the science of obesity and weight loss.

In this week's Homerun Slides, understanding the need for cultural competence and the strategies to overcome cultural barriers.

Suppressor of cytokine signaling-3: Observations pertaining to suppressor of cytokine signaling-3 (SOCS-3) point to a new mechanism for insulin signal modulation. The SOCS family of proteins (CIS and SOCS 1 – 7) were originally described as a negative feedback loop for cytokine receptor signaling through Janus kinase (JaK).