Often when a diabetes patient goes out of the house, they have a whole backpack full of stuff, including meters, strips, lancets, glucose tabs, insulin pens or extra pump sets, a cell phone and maybe a CGMS device. Keeping up with their bag of diabetes supplies can be a burden …

This week we have lots of information for you. We continue to see the value of individualizing diabetes care for every patient and there is no better way to show you this than to share a couple of interviews I had this week at the U.S. Pro Challange Bike Race. …

There are some diabetes patients who push the limits on living a normal life, and even go beyond normal to the extreme. They push their bodies to achievements that even the best euglycemic patient can only dream of coming close to. One group of these diabetes athletes rides for Team …

Print this out for all of your newly diagnosed diabetes patients. Provides some great information for your patients that will improve their diabetes control. Provided by dLife and Diatribe. Top Ten Tips Newly Diagnosed Type 2’s.

ReShape® is the first non-surgical weight loss procedure for mild to moderate obesity. The dual balloon device is helping patients to achieve life-changing weight loss without surgery. The dual balloon mounted on a flexible shaft that is inserted endoscopicaly in the stomach and filled with saline. It works by restricting …

Sometimes it seems that we get our priorities screwed up. Earlier in the week, I had to teach a patient how to dose NPH and Regular insulin to manage their diabetes. This does not seem like much except this patient has been well-controlled for at least five years on an …

As soon as we see a person who has diabetes, we decide that hypertension will be a problem. In fact about 74% of diabetes patients do have elevated blood pressure levels. The problem with this is that often we put type 1 patients in that group even though the research …

In this week’s Homerun Slides, we take a look at the value of glycemic control and explore the question of why type 2 diabetes should be aggressively treated… To download the complete set in PowerPoint format, just use this link: The Present and Future of Insulin Therapy in the Era …

Female, 24 years of age, type 2 diabetes and obesity, wants better glucose management and to lose weight. Most of her meals consist of high carb, fast food take out, she skips breakfast and overeats during the evening hours. She has a sedentary lifestyle. She reports being an “all or …

David Levy, MD, FRCP      Preferred treatment: angiotensin blockade It is universally accepted that angiotensin blockade should be preferentially used in hypertensive diabetic patients. Although the evidence for greater cardiovascular risk reduction compared with other drug groups is not overwhelming, the renoprotective benefits in type 2 diabetes, and reduction in renal end …