Letter From The Editor

For many years we have been talking about the value of almonds, walnuts, and pistachios in our patients health. We have published over 75 articles on the way to maximize these foods. This week we have a great feature on how adding a handful of pistachios day can keep diabetes …

This week there is a great item about diabetes and cardiovascular problems, especially in women. In fact there are a total of four items that continue to expound on the relationship between diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular Disease. To make matters worse, many patients who have had a heart attack and …

Way back in July 2011 we reviewed some of the emerging data showing that the GLP-1 RA class might have some value in improving cardiovascular outcomes. As newer entities in this class have been researched the cardiovascular studies required for approval and aftermarket monitoring continue to show the value of …

Last month I worked with Bruce Biundo, RPh, FACA, and Jerry D. Meece, RPh, FACA, FAADE, CDM, CDE, to develop a CE program on testosterone for pharmacists. This CE, The Management of Androgen Deficiency: The Pharmacists’ Role in Providing Appropriate Patient Care, has had a large response due to the …

If you do a search on our website you will find over 150 articles and slide series about the SGLT-2 inhibitors. The content ranges from research studies to patient cases, to clinician use examples. We believe that all this information makes it easier to decide when to use one of …

Years ago there was a famous singer, actor, and comedian, Jimmy Durante, who would often start or end a joke with the phrase "ink-a dinka doo." However, after you read this week’s Disaster Averted, saying "ink-a dinka don’t" to your diabetes patients who want to get a tattoo may make a …

On Friday morning after I got done with a 40 mile bike ride with our local club, we were sitting and talking at our favorite coffee shop when my phone rang. It was a family friend who wanted to talk about her husband’s medications for diabetes. He had been referred …

We have a really interesting item this week that bears reading more than once. Item #4 talks about using glimepiride with patients who are on insulin and how this may be safer and and better than adding more insulin. This article could be turned around to say we should start …

Often times our patients get so much information that they get frustrated and just give up. This means all our efforts go to waste and both the patient and practitioner are unhappy. Our health and wellness guru Dr. Sheri Colberg has been working with patients for the last 20 years …

Most clinicians focus on fasting glucose levels to prevent the complications of diabetes. What if there was a generic diabetes medication available that would lower ppg and cardiovascular risk and had almost no chance of causing hypoglycemia? If you want to find out what that medication is then check out …