Editor’s Note: Internet Cures for Diabetes, Patient Education and New Slides

What do you do for your patients who come to you with questions about using herbal products to treat or “cure” diabetes? Our Clinical Case Study on the Internet and Herbal Treatments this week discusses the self-referral to a diabetes educator for advice and what happened.

This week’s Disaster Averted on an Insulin Incident brings to light what can happen if your patients don’t know which of their insulins are long or short acting and this week we begin a new six-part Homerun Slides series on Incretins.