In this week’s Homerun Slides, we begin a series which Dr. Stanley Schwartz presented at the 2014 ADA Scientific Sessions, where he outlined some of the problems with the current diabetes classification system. This first section discusses the definition of LADA and shows how diabetes diagnosis characteristics frequently overlap….

  This week we wrap up our series of Homerun Slides from Dr. Stanley Schwartz covering the current state of obesity and the medication therapies available. We delve further in to the possibilities of combining insulin with the new incretin therapies including GLP-1’s and DPP-IV’s….

Our publisher, Steve Freed, had a chance to talk with Dr. Stanley Schwartz, asking questions and getting some in-depth and very informative answers on exactly how SGLT-2 Inhibitors work.  Steve Freed: Regarding the SGLT2 drugs that are now available, I know that a lot of physicians just refuse to write …

  In this week’s Homerun Slides continuing our series from Dr. Stanley Schwartz, we cover topics including the Benefits of Combined Treatment (Pharmacotherapy and Lifestyle Modification), a demonstation of how Obesity Requires Long-Term Care, and information on how Roux-en-Y surgery restores the incretin effect…

  Dr. Stanley Schwartz focuses on obesity but with an emphasis on some of the new medical therapies now available. He also discusses the idea of the "metabolically healthy obese" patient and why he believes this is an oxymoronic term….

Dr. Stanley Schwartz finishes up his slides series on the current state of the obesity epidemic and its relationship with diabetes. Topics covered in this set include a discussion of the newest drug therapies on the market including the incretins and the SGLT-2 inhibitors…. To download in PowerPoint (.ppt) format: Obesity …

  In this week’s Homerun Slides, we continue with Dr. Stanley Schwartz’s series on obesity with topics on the benefits of weight loss including: lower CHD risk, improved insulin sensitivity, lowered blood pressure, and an increase in life expectancy….

In this week’s Homerun Slides, Dr. Stanley Schwartz guides us through the basic physiology of modern obesity and the "toxic environment" of abundant cheap food and little exercise we all seem to live in….

  This week, we begin a new Homerun Slides series from Dr. Stanley Schwartz on obesity. This first set in the series includes an overview of the current situation in the U.S. as well as a discussion of the term "metabolically health obese" and why Dr. Schwartz thinks this is …

  In this week’s Homerun Slides, Dr. Stanley Schwartz goes over some of the accepted algorithms for diabetes control but suggests some novel changes including the addition of GLP-1’s closer to diagnosis. He also discusses studies that have combined SGLT2 inhibitor therapy with incretins…