Letter From The Editor

Happy Holidays from all of us at Diabetes In Control.   As I was reviewing the articles for this week I got a call at the pharmacy from a 40 year old patient asking me to refill her two diabetes drugs: metformin and glyburide. As I was processing the prescriptions …

Studies have shown that, on average, 54% of patients experience some type of error in medication reconciliation in the hospital. This leads to all kinds of problems as often these patients are prescribed hospital meds with no way to know if possible drug interactions will occur. Imagine if you could …

As we come to the holiday season there is a lot to be thankful for but some people are going to have a lot better Christmas than others. These "lucky schemers" have figured out a way to make millions by defrauding the Medicare Part D dry plan. A report released …

Last month many of you took the time to read and print our column from Dr. Sheri Colberg on exercises for older adults. However, some of our readers then messaged me about the challenges that patients have with balance and exercise so I went back to Dr. Colberg and asked …

In our last newsletter of the year on SGLT2 inhibitors we are going to look forward to what is in store for 2014 and beyond. This month, our PharmD candidate, Heather Good, has prepared a special feature on the how this class will expand and how these medications will be …

On Thursday night I was presenting a program on insulin to medical professionals and I asked the participants how a patient could go to bed with a normal glucose but wake up with a higher glucose in the morning. I heard words like "somogyi," "rebound" and "dawn phenomenon." Most of …

I have been providing diabetes education for the last 19 years and over that time there have been so many methods for diabetes control and management that it would fill up a thumb drive to just list all of them. Currently the main focus seems to be on carbohydrates and …

Typically we as medical professionals usually postpone our starting of insulin in type 2 patients as long as possible. This has become easier over the past few years as we have had four new classes of medications come into the market in the last seven years. Each of these classes attack …

Is there a difference between evidence-based medicine and evidence-based practice? Dr. Stanley Schwartz thinks so and this week we are going to share his Homerun Slides on why we need to focus on evidence-based practice in order to properly care for our patients. In 1954, Bill Haley and the Comets …

This week the FDA reversed its previous decision on Avandia (see this week’s Item #1). All the hype and bad press that Dr. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic put out about the drug and its side effects led to the near demise of the drug and the TZD class …