Letter From The Editor

Over the past year we have run a lot of articles on the Patient Centered Medical Home and Shared Medical Visits. This past week, however, I may have found the most useful information yet. I was able to listen to a public briefing on how CMS plans to reward clinicians …

More and more of our patients are developing diabetes, many of them at a much earlier age, so treatment has to be more focused and intense: the sooner this starts the better. This Special Edition brings you the background and basis for starting insulin therapy earlier. Two leading endocrinologists, Dr. …

This week marks one year since we started delivering our Diabetes Clinical Mastery Series newsletter, and Steve, Andrew, Heather and I appreciate the great support you have given us. According to your emails, the Homerun Slides have provided great materials for your talks, and there have been enough comments about …

This week we bring you more on the EASD and there is an exceptional amount of new information on GLP-1s: I don’t mean just another analog but multiple ways that GLP-1 can be increased in the body, and new ideas on the benefits. According to this week’s Item #2, EASD: …

Many times I get a call from a colleague asking about discarding insulin. Typically the one they ask about is Glargine. As most of you know the vial advises patients to discard the vial and remaining insulin 28 days after opening; however, due to the cost, many of our patients …

When a patient goes into the hospital they often are put on medications that affect their glucose. These meds can then follow them home where there are no clinical pharmacists or registered nurses to make sure everything runs right. This week our Case Study focuses on the use of steroids …

As we grapple with the burgeoning diabetes problem we often have a less than favorable opinion as medical professionals of seemingly endless tests that the FDA requires for new drug and device approvals. Now a new study by Lisa M. Schwartz, MD, MS, and Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, published in …

The Labor Day holiday usually signals that the end of summer is here, and this is a good time to consider reviewing medications for diabetes care. If you are thinking about using some of the newer medications and would like to have the background to explain their use then be …

When we research the articles for the newsletter we often look for items that represent thought trends in diabetes management and if this week’s news is any indication then food choices are starting to garner more attention in managing and preventing diabetes. This can’t come too soon as a recent …

Could chopsticks be the answer to diabetes and obesity? In a study released from Otago University the speed of eating has a big effect on weight gain and if we could just slow them down then maybe weight gain would slow down to. Can you imagine if we did away with …