Letter From The Editor

Looks like there is a real battle ahead for reform to health care. The change of Senators in the state of Massachusetts has altered the power in the Senate and changes the whole future of healthcare reform. So get ready for a lot of press coverage and no action. *** …

This is the time of year when JP Morgan has their investor meetings and all the companies in the diabetes business get to report. Our good friend at Diabetic Investor, Dave Kliff, was on hand and shared some of his insights on the meeting. According to Dave, the big winners …

This week I was wandering around the halls of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and believe me the future of technology means that more of our patients will have less reason to get off the couch. There were great displays by software developers for activity related games such …

Happy New Year from all of us at Diabetes in Control. We look forward to bringing you another year of the best in information, tools and articles from the world’s experts. Diabetes care has now moved to the electronic forefront as the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas this week …

Hope everyone has had a great start to this week of holiday celebrations. As we look forward to next year we know that diabetes will be a main concern for all of you. With the negotiations over a national healthcare program just beginning there will be lots of concerns for …

Today marks a milestone as Steve and I offer you Issue 500! For almost 10 years we have been providing you with the best in diabetes news, products and tools. We have grown from a newsletter for 26 pharmacists to a source of news for over 115,000 medical professionals in …

Steve, Andrew and I just spent three informative days in Las Vegas at the mid-year sessions of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists. There was a lot of information about the use of insulin in the hospital and how to avoid the pitfalls of hypoglycemia. There were numerous talks …

Four weeks ago I gave you some information on the IDF’s new guidelines on glucose monitoring and how best to use this tool. This week Item #1 brings us comments by leading European diabetes experts led by Professor Oliver Schnell from the Diabetes Research Institute in Munich. Together they published …

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, with family and friends. As Steve and I were talking over the weekend we got into a discussion about people’s concern for their health between now and the first of the year. People get ready for the onslaught of food and parties in different …

I was reading a pharmacy journal last week and was surprised to find that Medco Health Solutions, the pharmacy benefit manager, was going to study how the genetic makeup of patients affects the efficacy of drugs. It seemed a little odd that a benefits manger was going to enroll 14,000 …