Letter From The Editor

Each week in our newsletter we bring you multiple articles on the reasons for lowering patients’ A1c and controlling their glucose levels. In addition we often include studies that encourage us to use insulin sooner and more aggressively. Anytime we get more aggressive we increase the risk of hypoglycemia. Sometimes …

As I write this, I’m on the last day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and if you switch on any television news show you are bound to see all the new TV’s, computers and phones. However what you may not know is that the digital health …

In last Saturday’s newsletter, my editorial focused on physical activity and how the new year brings all kinds of exercise programs that will make our patients thinner and healthier in only a matter of minutes a day. We know that these programs rarely work long term and our patients sometimes get …

I have a very good friend who is a Weight Watcher’s program leader and this week we were talking about how each and every new year, millions of people decide to take control of their own lives, and get fit and healthy. She was sharing how the attendance at her …

In last Friday’s newsletter, I had some interesting insights into the use of patient surveys and how the way these are written can affect a provider’s overall scores. This week we have a Mastery In Minutes video from Andrew VanZee, MHA, FACHE, on how Gathering Patient Data Together, Making It …

Please Note: We are re-sending this weekend’s newsletter to correct a technical issue for iPhone users. Our apologies for any inconvenience. Thanks for your commitment to great diabetes care!   While looking at some information on the way that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be paying doctors, …

Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend and that you are now ready for the New Year. This week we have part two of our current clinical text, Adipose Tissue as an Endocrine Gland: A Possible Key in Understanding the Metabolic Mysteries. There is some great information on the three types of …

This year has just sped by for all of us here at Diabetes In Control and we suspect for many of you as well. In this holiday season of rushing around, we hope that you have a chance to relax, catch your breath and enjoy the season for at least a …

Hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia are often exaggerated during the holidays, either because of too much food, increased activity, more travel than usual, or all of these combined. For our type 1 patients both low and elevated levels might be because they are eating foods they are not familiar with. However these …

We are coming to the end of the holiday season and many of our patients are starting to think about what they will do for their health in the new year. Some of them have asked for exercise equipment or gadgets as a holiday gift, and others have decided to …