Letter From The Editor

Over the past month, I’ve done 20 hours of CE including a full day becoming certified at immunizations. In our area, every pharmacy, doctor’s office and walk-in clinic offers flu shots, and as we move into the fall, the volume of flu shots given will grow exponentially. Even with the ease …

Every day we hear how weight loss is good for our patients with diabetes but when we speak to them we are talking in such ambiguous terms that they often don’t see the value in losing weight. This is compounded by the fact that as we gain weight we have …

Last week we had our reporter Jacqueline Middleton, and photographer Jay Maragon, at the final stage of the USA Pro Challenge. As you may know, this year Novo Nordisk has fielded a professional cycling team where all riders have type 1 diabetes. Jackie got a chance to meet with Phil …

We know that type 1 diabetes results from T-cell–mediated destruction of beta-cells in the pancreas. So, to prevent type 1 diabetes from developing, we need to stop that destruction. In addition to our quest to eliminate type 1, we need to preserve the remaining cells as well as generate new …

We are moving closer to the beginning of the Health Exchanges and it appears that many of the health plans will offer substantially smaller networks of hospitals and physicians than current health plans generally offer. Enrollees in such plans will have limited or no coverage if they seek care outside their plan …

We’ve been bringing you these special newsletters about the SGLT2 inhibitors and hopefully they are helping you see how these new medications can be part of your patient treatment plan. For this edition, we have gone to some of the patients on the only SGLT2 Inhibitor currently available, Invokana. In …

For the past eight years, both Steve Freed and I have been delivering CEU’s on medical errors to pharmacists and nurses, and we are frequently asked what the biggest causes of errors are. After giving this considerable thought, I believe that repetitive tasks are a major cause of medication errors. …

There used to be a show on TV when I was a kid called "Flipper." Ranger Porter Ricks patrolled the waters around Coral Key Park with his two sons, Bud and Sandy, and their dolphin friend, "Flipper," solving crimes and spoiling the lives of bad guys. No matter what happened, …

This week we go back to the ADA Handbook for type 1 patients for our Clinical Text — part 4 of our series on nutrition talks about nutrition including micronutrients, the value of carb counting, meal plans and factors that may affect adherence. Our Disaster Averted brings up the idea of …

Over the past months there have been a lot of articles about the idea that Alzheimer’s disease may be another form of diabetes. In fact we have covered this information in previous issues of Diabetes In Control. While looking through some recent studies I found one from the Annals of …