Dr. Minisha Sood is an endocrinologist, assistant professor at Hofstra School of Medicine and a 2017 recipient of the Castle Connolly Exceptional Women in Medicine Award. Her areas of expertise include diabetes, thyroid disorders, obesity, and polycystic ovary syndrome. Also the 2017 recipient of the Castle Connolly Exceptional Women in Medicine Award, Dr. Caroline Messer is a clinical assistant professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and an assistant professor at Hofstra School of Medicine. Dr. Messer is actively engaged in clinical research and is a frequent guest lecturer to other physicians on topics such as thyroid disease, osteoporosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, and diabetes.

In this week's Homerun Slides, Dr. Claude Lardinois focuses on the importance of albuminuria as it relates to chronic kidney disease in people with type 2 diabetes.

The wonders of lactate: Very recently, our laboratory has made a major improvement in the use of the minimal model to assess insulin sensitivity and evaluate its importance in metabolic control. During the FSIGT, as it is practiced, there is initially a large increase in glucose concentration, due to the glucose injection, there is an endogenous finite insulin response in normal individuals, and the insulin is then increased again at 20 min after the exogenous insulin injection. We considered the question of the fate of the injected glucose before the secondary insulin injection. In the absence of a large increase in insulin, much of the glucose is disposed by an insulin-independent mechanism, a process we termed “glucose effectiveness.”

Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed talks with two of the presenters at the AACE 26th Annual Scientific & Clinical Congress in Austin, Texas. Dr. Caroline Messer (left), and Dr. Minisha Sood (right) discuss private practice, public health, and treatment preferences. Dr. Minisha Sood is an endocrinologist, assistant professor at …

Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed talks with Dr. Karl Nadolsky at the AACE 26th Annual Scientific & Clinical Congress in Austin, Texas. Dr. Nadolsky discusses lifestyle as medicine and treating the disease of obesity in a holistic manner. Dr. Karl Nadolsky, DO is an endocrinologist at Walter Reed National …

This week we have an interesting article on the use of nonnutritive sweeteners.  Over the years, we have had many of these as one opinion or another had flip-flopped as to the benefit or harm of these products. As an educator, I have always been in favor of using them …

Artificial sweeteners may offer short-term weight loss, but at what cost?

Early onset menopause linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes in a cohort study.

Research suggests screening for latent coronary artery disease to decrease complications.

Fiscal policies targeting diet can be used as a deterrent to poor dietary choices.