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I just got back from the AACE Annual sessions in Orlando. It was great to see a lot of you and appreciated the nice comments you had about our newsletter. I did not have a lot of time to put together an overview for out deadline but did want to …

Every now and then great minds think alike and this week Dr. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM outlines how Upper-body resistance training exercises: Biceps curls and triceps curls benefit patients. If you change the weights to water bottles you get an activity that I have been using for years.

Lois Love Exelbert, RN, MS, CDE, BC-ADM Administrative Director, Diabetes Care Center Baptist Hospital of Miami

There seems to be some real shifts in the diabetes marketplace and a lot of it has to do with insulin and type 2 diabetes. David Kliff, Publisher, Diabetes Investor, helps us unravel the Insulin Mystery. To read this article or to learn more about how Diabetes Investor got its …

Does adding a little simple resistance to your exercise actually make a difference? Have your patients try this weeks Upper-body resistance training exercises: Double-arm row and lat pull-down shared with us by Dr. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM and see the difference yourself.

A few weeks ago we had an article by the endocrinologist Irl Hirsch. What many of you may not know is that his brother James, also has diabetes and has written a book about his and other folks experiences with the disease. Leigh Anne Bowen, University of Florida Doctor of …

Embryonic Stem Cells Become Insulin Producing Beta Cells according to the biotechnology company Novocell , and verified by Dr. Camillo Ricordi, Director, Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami. Our special reporter Linda Stine, has the inside scoop on this ground breaking work

Have you tried to refer a child to a pediatric endocrinologist lately? According to the Journal of Pediatrics it may be harder than you think. For every 290 children with diabetes in the United States, there is only one board-certified pediatric endocrinologist, and 2 states, Montana and Wyoming reported no …

Jenny Ruhl (2008) Reviewed by Karen Linz, JD, MBA, PharmD Candidate, University of Florida College of Pharmacy Blood Sugar 101 is written specifically for Type 2 diabetics to let them know that it is possible for people with diabetes to achieve normal blood glucose levels, and that by doing so, …

Exubera gets pulled from the market, Lilly discontinues AIR. Why is this happening. Why would patients want Ouch over Ouch less? Richard Dolinar, MD, Senior Fellow Healthcare Policy, Heartland Institute, thinks he knows what happened. Click here to find out what he figured out.