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Theresa L. Garnero, CDE APRN, BC-ADM is back with a new cartoon for you this week. Click here to get your diabetes laugh.

Lower-body resistance training exercises: Knee dips and knee lifts is the focus for your patients this week from Dr. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM. With over 20 different easy to do activities for your patients to try it is hard not to get them motivated. Be sure to visit Dr. Colberg’s …

U.S. health officials are weighing tougher requirements for companies looking to launch new entries into the lucrative market for diabetes drugs. Following heart risk concerns with GlaxoSmithKline’s pill Avandia, regulators will ask outside experts next week how much data should be gathered before and after approval about potential cardiovascular benefits …

Laura Plunkett, mom and diabetes writer has a new tool for us this week. Look below to get your copy of Exercise Motivation for Kids Did you know that the National Institute of Health recommends children with diabetes exercise a full hour each day? When my son Danny was diagnosed …

Vanessa M. Justino, Dr. of Pharmacy Candidate University of Florida had an opportunity to spend some time at the Advanced Diabetes Treatment Center in Tampa where they use a therapy called MATS to help reverse the effects of diabetes. She was fascinated by what she learned and has prepared a …

We ran into Dr. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM at ADA in San Francisco and we were discussing the success patients feel when they do something physical and how many medical professionals have used her printouts to help their patients. This week she brings us Lower-body resistance training exercises: One-leg press …

I had the unique pleasure of attending a couple of investor meetings with Dave Kliff our good friend at Diabetic Investor and that was an awakening in itself. At those meetings it is all about the money, and Dave has prepared an overview of the GLP-1 game. Click here to …

Francesco Rubino M.D.Chief, Section of Gastrointestinal Metabolic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University-New York is part of the 1st World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes. He has done considerable work in researching surgery for diabetes control and has agreed to share his insights with you, …

Head for the kitchen!! This week Dr. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM explains how you can do at-home upper-body resistance exercises, with nothing more than a broom and a can of soup.

For the past 2 years Dr. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM has been helping us work with our diabetes patients, with her bi-weekly articles. She recently teamed up with Dr. Steven Edelman, to write 50 Secrets of the Longest Living People with Diabetes. Kimberly Stultz, Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate University of …