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Healthcare is a serious business, so using humor as a therapeutic tool to assist people may not be in the forefront of your mind. Theresa L. Garnero has prepared a handout to help us overcome our sometimes over serious manners and learn the necessary skills to use humor.

To often our patients tell us they are not allowed to have any physical activity because of the Cardiovascular concerns. Dr. Sheri Colberg, author of The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan: Living Well and Being Fit with Diabetes, has the right things to do in this weeks feature Exercising Safely …

Last week I had the great opportunity to meet Dr. Phil Wood at the ADA conference in Chicago, we chatted about fat and other things and he prepared this week’s article based on his review of the abstracts. Be sure to read Dyslipidemia In Insulin Resistance: Hypertriglyceridemia And Low HDL …

With the current New England Journal Article on Avandia and it’s increased risks for cardiovascular problems, I believe we have missed the whole point of the article. Most people only looked at the editorials on the article and not the original article in the New England Journal of Medicine. If …

Julio C. Voltarelli, MD, PhD, from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil has been working on using stem cells for reversing Type 1 diabetes. Recently his group had success with a small number of patients. To find the results and see what other experts say read Stem Cell Treatment …

Dr. Sheri Colberg, author of The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan: Living Well and Being Fit with Diabetes, has her own take on what Dick and Steve are recommending. Be sure to read What Does It Take to Break the Cycle, and find out more about the best replacement.

With all the press last week about Avandia and heart disease, patients have been on the phones to their prescribers asking for a change. Stephen Freed, Publisher, Diabetes Educator and Pharmacist, worked with Dr. Richard K. Bernstein, MD, to find the real message in all the hype. To find out …

Use of the insulin analogues glargine and detemir can result in better glucose control. However, because glargine and detemir differ from one another, further clinical experience may identify which patient groups will do better on each drug. Dr Matthew C. Riddle recently spoke at an American Diabetes Association meeting and …

If your patients are going to start any new exercise program then they need to know how to avoid injuring and what to do about the inevitable muscle. Dr. Sheri Colberg has an excerpt from her book The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan: Living Well and Being Fit with Diabetes, …

Have you ever had a patient ask, how much do our genes contribute to our risk of developing diabetes? Or, “Diabetes seems to run in my family. Am I doomed to developing the disease too?” Phil Wood DVM, MS, PhD gives us a way to answer in his feature Genetics …