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  By Sheri Colberg, PhD   Individuals with diabetes are frequently deconditioned and live a sedentary lifestyle. The good news is that people starting out on the lowest end of the fitness scale have the most to gain from adding in very little physical activity.

Often times there can be difficulty getting approval for the patient to use a GLP-1 analog and so the patient may miss a few days of the medication and possibly decide they don’t want to continue. I have gotten in the habit of ordering the medication from the pharmacy the …

When the GLP-1 analogs first came out I was slow to start using them. As a primary care physician in a busy multi-practitioner office I was used to working with oral medications for diabetes, and only as a last resort would I put patients on basal insulin. If my patients …

History of the sodium-glucose co-transporter (SGLT) inhibitors by Erica Paul, PharmD, Graduate Intern University of Florida College of Pharmacy Back in the late 1800’s, a compound called phlorizin, found in the bark of apple trees, was isolated by French chemists. Since then it has been put to use in multiple …

Report by Jacqueline Vogt, PharmD Candidate, UF College of Pharmacy More than one-third of adults and approximately 17% of children and adolescents in the U.S. are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey1.

ACE and Lilly Diabetes have launched the “EmPower Diabetes Emergency Plan” with comprehensive tips to help people with diabetes prepare for emergencies such as natural disasters or even extended power outages. Every patient with diabetes needs to be prepared for the unexpected.

By Wael Diab, RPh, PharmD Candidate University of Colorado College of Pharmacy The pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus is complex, consisting of far more physiologic defects than simple insulin resistance and beta-cell dysfunction….

    By Sheri Colberg, PhD   Just to ask, when was the last time you practiced balancing on one leg for a minute or two?

In our practice we spend time in the community and encounter patients who are seeing primary care physicians and are on minimal therapy as well as patients from our clinic who are managed more aggressively….

Gregory Peterson and Craig Spellman are two physicians who see a lot of diabetes patients in their practices, and are very familiar with the use of GLP-1 agonists. Both of them have written journal articles about the use of these newer medications….