Letter From The Editor

We are rapidly approaching the ten year anniversary of the entrance of GLP-1 analogs into the diabetes marketplace. It all started with exenatide and most medical professionals we interviewed back then did not believe that clinicians or patients would use an injectable unless they had to. Fast forward ten years …

We have always been very focused here at Diabetes in Control on the value of physical activity for the prevention of diabetes and reduction of obesity. We offer apps for your patients and we even have our own physical activity guru, Dr. Sheri Colberg. The reason that we do all …

Novo spent a lot of time on studies and research on liraglutide as a weight loss product. Saxenda was approved in December 2014, and they are starting to gain market traction. The question comes to mind — if you give a diabetes drug to an non- or pre-diabetes patient, do …

We often take insulin for granted and reach in the fridge to start a patient on this drug without a lot of hesitation. But have you ever considered what it takes to make insulin, or how subtle differences in production can have big consequences? This week, we start a new Homerun …

We all know the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results." Nowhere has this been more true than in medicine. Thirty-five years ago, the "experts" decided that if you ate cholesterol it would raise LDL and Total Cholesterol, and the …

This week’s Clinical Mastery Series newsletter is chock full of great information to help with your patients. First we wrap up our killer Homerun Slides series on DME. Next up is Part 1 of the latest in insulin management techniques from Practical Diabetes Care. Our Disaster Averted works quite well with …

No matter how you want to analyze it there is an impeding explosion in diabetes care and also in how much it will cost. Part of this is addressed by paying clinicians to deliver patient interactions via the internet. Although early studies seem to show an improvement in the care …

Have you had patients come to your office with the latest and greatest thing for "curing" diabetes? Not a day goes by without someone showing me a new way to lose weight and fix their diabetes. But the real question is, are these fixes really working or is the problem …

When we do a diabetes education program for patients we always talk about food choices. The overwhelming key to success is not to give people impossible goals to follow and try to restrict everything they can have. Having them cut portions down too much will lead to failure over the …

Ten years ago when a patient checked into the hospital for severe hypo- or hyperglycemia we took the attitude that if we could get them back to normal and get them home then our job was done. That was before we knew how many other medications affected glucose levels and how …