Children with diabetes are often sidelined during team sports and planned exercise.

Updated blood pressure control numbers may have cardiovascular benefits for some patients.

Can most of your patients with diabetes or prediabetes tell you what their A1c number is? Follow the link to share your response.

A 42-year-old patient was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes approximately one year ago and is currently taking metformin, a DPP-4 inhibitor, and a basal insulin dose (current daily dose .9 U/kg/day). Despite good compliance with her diet, exercise, and medication regimen, she reports postprandial glucose measurements of usually about 190 mg/dL. Her current A1C is 7.6%. Which of the following changes in her management do you consider most important? A. Add a sulfonylurea to her regimen B. Increase her basal insulin dose C. Add a pre-meal rapid-acting insulin D. Discontinue her basal insulin dose and add a prandial insulin dose Follow the link to see the answer.

Henry Anhalt, DO (left), is a pediatric endocrinologist in Hackensack, NJ who was most recently the Chief Medical Officer of the T1D Exchange, a nonprofit organization that has created a new paradigm fostering collaboration among patients, physicians, researchers and industry to speed discovery of better therapies for type 1 diabetes. Howard Steinberg went from brand management at the Pepsi Cola Co to applying his personal understanding of diabetes - he has lived with type 1 diabetes since age 10 - to create the multimedia DTC platform dLife, which he founded in 2005.

In this Exclusive Interview, Henry Anhalt and Howard Steinberg talk with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA meeting in San Diego, California, about the work of Insulin for Life USA, an affiliate of the global organization that works to bring much-needed insulin to those in need in developing countries.

Steve Freed:  This is Steve Freed with Diabetes in Control and we’re here in San Diego for the American Diabetes Association 77th Scientific Sessions. We have some really great interviews with some of the top endo’s all across the globe. We have two special guests here, Henry Anhalt and Howard …

In part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, Henry Anhalt and Howard Steinberg talk with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA meeting in San Diego, California, about the humanitarian necessity for an organization such as Insulin for Life USA.

In part 2 of this Exclusive Interview, Henry Anhalt and Howard Steinberg explain the complications of distributing insulin in the developing world and their efforts to raise awareness about this need in a conversation with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA meeting in San Diego, California.

In part 3 of this Exclusive Interview, Henry Anhalt and Howard Steinberg talk with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA meeting in San Diego, California, about the union of the global organization in the fight to get insulin to those who need it and the search for donors to help finance the cause.