In the last post, I reviewed a study by Gerald Reaven's group showing that insulin resistance strongly predicts the risk of cardiovascular disease over a 5-year period. In 2001, Reaven's grou...
Yes, statins increase the risk for type2 diabetes! Most doctors have now accepted this as a risk forprescribing statins and many don't care. A recent study appearing onMarch 4 in Diabetologia has ma...
Disclaimer: The following is a guest post from a fellow reader of this blog, and a person living with type 2 diabetes as well as HIV. The thoughts and opinions expressed here are not necessarily my ow...
In an email from Laura Greer on January16, I received information about this study. I took the survey, butdid not qualify. I think this study may be of interest to some of myreaders and they can tak...
In this post, I'll examine the possible relationship between meat intake and type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, and it is strongly linked to lifestyle factors.N...
Two topics have come to the fore in the last month. The first is online pharmacies and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy and t...
On the surface, this seems like a no-brainer, but the outcome is in the details. It is often easy to see why some practices fail and many p...
Each Friday, I'm going to post a picture of a modern food so ridiculous it makes you want to laugh and cry at the same time. I'm do...
This is one time I want to leave this alone, but the latest post on the Mayo Clinic website really has me wondering what the purpose of the ...
Most of us understand that the acronym RD means registered dietitian. This blogger is trying to draw attention to her blog and states, “RD ...
The day I lost my car... I became an avid pedestrian. Every local place became THE place to go for any goods and services. I really didn...
The four occupations included in this blog are among the most under appreciated professions. They still can have people within the professi...
Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine published an interesting editorial titled " Candy at the Cash Register-- a Risk Factor f...
Writing about medical practices is fun, but far from easy. Presently, medical practice seems in a state of flux. There has always been som...
Having written this blog about assumptions patients should not make, I need to revisit the topic to add a few more assumptions not to make a...
This blog got its start quite by accident and not one putting anyone or me in the hospital this time. In discussing patient centered care wi...
Get ready for a trip to the emergency room if you take this drug inappropriately. Also, keep this drug out of reach of children of any age ...
I think a lot about patients' rights, and expectations; about what the most ideal medical care should look like for a person with diabe...
As a patient that has had excellent medical insurance for most of my adult life, why would I support or advocate for another type of medicin...
The more I read and research about concierge medicine, the more I become concerned that I have missed an important point. Some of this I kn...
Now that my proficiency of using my left hand for the mouse has improved and I can type with my left hand (all be it slowly), I will be back...
This is the fourth of a series of blog posts in which I will recount my adventures at Stanford's Medicine X, Conference: An experience w...
This is the third of a series of blog posts in which I will recount my adventures at Stanford's Medicine X, Conference: An experience wh...
This is the second of a series of blog posts in which I will recount my adventures at Stanford's Medicine X, Conference: An experience w...
This is the first of a series of blog posts in which I will recount my adventures at Stanford's Medicine X, Conference: An experience wh...
I've needed new professional and blog photos for a long time. My friend Adam Roe was in town recently, and he happens to be professiona...
It's been a couple of months since I've shared anything significant with my fellow readers. It's not that I don't appreciate...
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Blood lipids such as LDL and HDL cholesterol are markers of the biological processes that impact cardiovascular disease, and they are commonly measured to assess cardiovascular risk. When we think ab...
Although the concept of food addiction remains controversial, there's no doubt that specific foods can provoke addiction-like behaviors in susceptible people. Yet not all foods have this effect, ...
I would like to thank Steve Cooksey forpointing this out, but I cannot totally agree with him. Yes, theAmerican Society of Nutrition (ASN) has some serious conflicts ofinterest, but they are not tryi...
Another blogger and I are having adiscussion – more a disagreement in terminology between control andmanagement of diabetes. I doubt that we will change the opinion ofthe other, but there are differe...
