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Dr. Paul Lam, is a practicing physician and Tai Chi master. He has written a new book “Tai Chi for Diabetes” and our current intern Irene Lelekis, Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate University of Florida College of Pharmacy, has experienced what the book has to offer and shares her reasons that …

Sheri Colberg Ph.D. has written a new book based on her experiences as an athlete and diabetes patient. The Diabetic Athlete’s Handbook: Your guide to peak performance is reviewed this week by Shannon Hart, PharmD Candidate University of Florida College of Pharmacy

David Kliff, Publisher, Diabetic Investor, has been looking at the President-elect’s recent appointments and keeps wondering who will be the new head the Food and Drug Administration. Whoever it is will have an interesting road ahead of them.

More and more of our patients using insulin are exercising and participating in sports. They often lower their basal rates or decrease their mealtime dose to try and compensate. This can lead to hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia after exercising. Why does that happen and what changes over time. Dr. Sheri Colberg, …

More and more patients with HIV are controlling their disease well. When viral loads are under control, patients often are seen by clinicians for other problems. Diabetes seems to be one of those problems that get a lot of attention. My current intern, Amanda Laurenzo, University of Florida PharmD candidate, …

A recent article in Pediatrics, discussed how preteens and teens have doubled use of diabetes drugs in the past 4 years and that the prevalence is dramatically higher among young girls vs. boys. Why is this occurring? Why is it higher in girls? This week we have the article for …

We seem to spend so much time with our overweight Type 2 patients that we forget about the patients that seem to be doing everything right. They eat right, they exercise and they still have problems. Dr. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM works with these kinds of patients all the time. …

Can your patients save money on their prescriptions? Joy Wallace, BSPharm has some methods to help them find

With all the press lately about the incretin mimetics and pancreatitis our current intern, Jennifer Webb, PharmD Candidate, FAMU has taken a look at the facts, and compared the chances of pancreatitis among classes of drugs and how the risk of death from these drugs compare to other things. Find …

We go to the gas pumps and fill up our car and then just press on the pedal and the car goes. But do you really know how that gas ends up moving your car? Did you know the same thing happens in your body Dr. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM, …