Letter From The Editor

As we approach the holiday weekend I would like to thank all of you for the overwhelming response that we have received to our new Diabetes Clinical Mastery Series. It has been very rewarding for all of us at Diabetes In Control to find a way to bring you more …

Last week we published an article, New Analysis Concludes Cause of Diabetes Not Genetic, which focused on the concept that no genomic research has found that genes play a significant part in causing diabetes. Over the past week we have received many comments about the article from researchers around the …

As I look back over the past year, it has been quite a ride for all of us in healthcare and in diabetes. Congress passed the historic healthcare reform law but will it stay? Part of that bill reduced payments to physicians by 24% and Congress blocked the reduction three …

Last week our publisher, Steve Freed, shared some great Homerun Slides on how Type 2 diabetes develops and what role hormones play in the progression of the disease. Your response was overwhelming and this week Steve brings us the second installment with some more great slides on inflammation markers. In …

As we come to the end of the year, there is some good news out there for our patients. Last week Congress finally got their act together and realized that patient care for seniors would suffer if the proposed cut in physician reimbursement came about. After extending the current reimbursement …

Lecture after lecture we all have seen the famous slide first done by David M. Kendall, MD, Richard Bergenstal, MD, et al, at the International Diabetes Center in Minneapolis. I have used that slide in over 100 presentations and I would guess it is the most used slide in the …

I was reviewing some charts with a physician this past week and she made a comment about how many of her younger patients, 18-30 year olds, were overweight and just keep getting bigger. Jokingly I commented that maybe we should put a Lap-Band on at birth and then as soon …

Weight loss and glucose control– the Holy Grail of diabetes care. We see it over and over again. Obesity often leads to diabetes and then the battle begins: get the weight down, keep the A1c down, be more aggressive managing both and reduce the risk of complications. Often it seems …

Steve and I have been involved with the internet for over 10 years providing information to medical professionals. There have been a lot of changes in the way information is disseminated over this time period. More importantly, instant content and contact services like Yahoo IM, Facebook and Twitter have increased …

Happy Thanksgiving to all our loyal readers: There is a study that came out this week that can be a win-win for both clinicians and patients pointing to the value of Shared Medical Appointments. As we all have heard, unless Congress does something soon, primary care physicians and others will …