Letter From The Editor

Welcome back from the holiday season. This past week has been a real workout. Everyone who put health on the back burner last month seems to be showing up in our offices, wanting immediate service and quick fixes. In addition the “Resolution” patients are coming in looking for fast and …

Happy New Year from all of us at Diabetes in Control. We have provided a lot of information about the most current therapies for diabetes and co-morbidities in recent months and in an effort to bring you more than any other online publication we like to delve into the background …

When we talk about adolescents and diabetes we usually spend a lot of time with the family as well as the patient. Too often the parents give commands rather than provide support so attempting successful management of glucose levels often becomes a battle rather than a team effort. This week’s …

Next week our patients will all be making their New Year’s resolutions and weight loss will be one that many of them make. After a month of eating everything the holidays have to offer they will all be looking for the holy grail of weight loss and you can bet …

It’s that time of year when we look back and see what we have accomplished. We feel very fortunate that we have been able to provide you with the best information to help you help your patients with diabetes. Our team has gone through over 900 articles, slide series and …

Over the past weeks we have shared some great slides on Advanced Glycation End-products, and there’s a lot linking these AGE’s to cardiovascular disease. Our publisher, Steve Freed, has been working with Stan Schwartz, MD, FACP, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and this week we have a whole …

Happy Holidays to all from Steve, Andrew, Heather and all the rest of us here at Diabetes in Control. Nowadays you can make yourself look a lot younger. With Botox for wrinkles, veneers for your teeth, collagen plumping up for your lips and gluteus maximus, lasers for your varicose veins …

Over the past three issues we have focused on advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) — how they are formed, what they can do, and why these compounds are detrimental to our patients’ health. This week in our Homerun Slides, we are bringing you information on ways to reduce the effects of …

We have been sharing a lot of information about native GLP-1 and GLP-1 analogs, and how these compounds work to control glucose levels in our patients. Lately there has been a lot of press concerning the possible cardiovascular benefits of using these analogs in our patients. We’ve been able to …

Medication adherence plays an important role in patient care, but sometimes patients become complacent and lose focus on their care. When we talk about kids with type 1 diabetes, when parents and other caregivers are involved, the problem can be even worse. Multiple studies have shown that, when it comes …