Letter From The Editor

Since we are coming up on our first year of bringing you our Diabetes Clinical Mastery Series, I spent some time looking over your reading trends and habits and found that the Homerun Slides are by far the most frequently visited destination. This week we are starting a new series …

Two of the riders in this year’s US Pro Challenge on Sanofi’s Team Type 1 have type 1 diabetes and are doing quite well. To find out what happened in the stage 3 time trials see USA PRO CHALLENGE –Team Type 1 – Update. This week a family friend called …

With the plethora of information available on the internet and the uncountable amount of products available to “treat diabetes naturally” it is only normal to expect that our patients will try different products. This is especially true if we tell them that they have “pre-diabetes.” This week’s Case Study gives …

This week the US Pro Challenge starts in Colorado. This event pits the top 3 finishers in last month’s Tour de France against over 200 hundred of the world’s top road cyclists, in what is billed as the highest altitude mountain climbs ever attempted. We all have a special interest …

This has been the hottest summer on record for most of the US. In fact I have been inviting people to come down to Florida to cool off, so you knew it was only a matter of time before the intense heat would lead to a potential diabetes disaster. Find …

During the recent AADE meetings there was a lot of attention placed on the idea of the Patient Centered Medical Home and how diabetes educators might take an active role in bridging the gap between the prescriber and the patient.  Check out Patient-Centered Medical Home Reshapes Role of Diabetes Educators. …

This week’s Disaster Averted highlights one of the common risks of hospital stays for diabetic patients: the discontinuation of their normal insulin regimen and the initiation of a reactive, sliding-scale, “one-size-fits-all” strategy for glycemic control. Often times this strategy is used with food choices for our patients and this week’s …

Many of you have never heard the name Dr. Rosalyn Yalow, and few of us would have known her as the “Mother of Endocrinology.” This scientist, who made the possibility of measuring such things as insulin and thyroid levels a reality, passed away a couple of months ago and my …

We are all familiar with the phrase, “Save the Best for Last,” and as we finish up our special GLP-1 Series, we have done exactly that. This week we have the completion of an interview that our publisher, Steve Freed, did with Dr. David D’Alessio, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division …

If you think that the U.S. House and Senate are on two totally different paths on spending, taxes and deficit management, they don’t even come close to the vastly different paths that the FDA and the European Union are taking. It appears that the EU has decided that diabetes is …