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…tells his patients, “The recent reports from Europe regarding Lantus being associated with cancer do not represent anything close to a proper scientific analysis.”

By Sheri Colberg, Ph.D.,FACSM As a physically active person, you arelikely to be bombarded with claims about the superiority ofparticular diets and guarantees that specific nutritional supplementswill enhance your athletic performance. With the fierce competitionthat exists in sports nowadays, athletes look for any edge to improvetheir athletic ability. They will …

Casey Murphy PharmD candidate 2010  University of Florida College of Pharmacy Dave Joffe, BSPharm, CDE, FACA Preceptor

Combination Therapy: Oral medications during the day and Lantus at night

Over the past few weeks, Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, has focused on insulin and oral medications and their relationship to exercise and many of you asked about Byetta and Symlin. This week she covers them in Diabetic Medications and Exercise, Part 2: Use of Byetta and Symlin.

This week we have a special feature for you from the AACE meeting. David Kliff, editor of the DiabetesInvestor.com has shared with us an overview of the AACE session “Updates and Advances in T2DM and Incretin Therapies” Presented by 4 of the top research professors in Diabetes, including David Kendall, …

Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, has been helping patients with diabetes successfully increase physical activity for many years and has written numerous books that patients and clinicians use. Most of her work recently has been about insulin and exercise, but many of you have written me to ask, “What about oral …

If you want the current information on the H1N1 (Swine Flu), the CDC just issued a report with all the current, accurate and updated information, H1N1 Update

Last week at The American College of Physicians Internal Medicine 2009 Conference everyone in hospital medicine seemed excited about inpatient glucose control. The NICE-SUGAR study drove interest and in a session on Friday morning Dr. Gregory A. Maynard, FACP, University of California, San Diego, weighed in on the subject.

When Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, spoke about insulin and exercise last time the focus was on long acting insulin and exercise. This week she continues with Insulin Use and Exercise, Part 3: Insulin Pumps.