As 2017 draws to a close, every news outlet looks back to see what things made a real difference. We have our most popular articles for each month of the year. Steve and I can also look back over the past seventeen and a half years and see what we …

2017 was book-ended by the ADA: the new 2017 guidelines were the most popular article in January, and in December the 2018 guidelines took center stage. Please take a look back with us at everything that happened in between. We thank you for your readership this year, and look forward to sharing the important diabetes news of 2018.

In 2017, we offered weekly survey questions on topics ranging from standard tests, to new drugs, to opinions on CGMs, to personal exercise habits - and you answered. Here are the survey questions that drew the most response this year.

Can you name the one most-viewed DIC article in 2017? Your choices are: a) Health Benefits from Intermittent Fasting b) 1-Hour Post-Prandial Glucose Predicts Risk For Type 2 Diabetes c) New ADA 2017 Standards d) Type 1 Cured in Mice e)The Future For Insulin Pump Companies: Who Will Survive? Follow the link to see the correct answer!

The community services that the Medical Fitness Network provides will allow people with diabetes to select a knowledgeable team of fitness and wellness professionals to help improve and maintain their well-being over a lifetime.

Today it was 81 degrees in St. Petersburg, Florida, and after a great bike ride, we were out looking at outdoor spas. This great weather often makes me forget how cold and wet it can get “up north.” When Steve sent the Disaster Averted to me to review, the last …

With much of the U.S. in the grip of harsh winter weather as December 2017 comes to a close, we're revisiting a post we originally published in 2013 about how having diabetes or prediabetes can increase the risk of frostbite. The risk was dramatically illustrated by the experience of British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who had to pull out of a grueling expedition to cross Antarctica due to the effects of frostbite. We wish all our readers a healthy, safe, and warm new year!

In part 8, the conclusion of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Aaron Vinik talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about the reward of his work and making time for patients.

In this week's Homerun Slides, Dr. Stanley Schwartz updates his lecture on a unifying pathophysiologic approach to the complications of diabetes in the context of the beta-cell classification of diabetes with a framework for understanding diabetes.

Combined dietary intervention and exercise: The available information on the role of combined lifestyle interventions (hypocaloric diets plus exercise) in patients with NAFLD is much more extensive, with several randomized, controlled trials showing significant benefit with this comprehensive approach. Again, the overall reduction in liver fat reported in most of these trials has been strongly correlated with the amount of weight loss.