This is an analysis from a patient's perspective. I am not saying I am right, but this is the way I read the 2014 ADA guidelines. Even...
This article in the Mayo Clinic website is good, but there is an opportunity lost. Doctor Maria Collazo-Clavell answers a question posed wi...
This Medscape article has me riled. Doctors are complaining about a noncompliance epidemic and how to solve it. There are seven articles of...
This question has many sides and depends on many variables. If you live in heavily populated areas of the United States, your chances are a...
Internal medicine doctors must be jealous because of all the veterans receiving excellent care from the Veterans Health Administration. So,...
Diabetes is a self-managed disease. This is the start of the last paragraph and to me says more than the rest of the blog. Whether you have...
It is interesting reading some of the topics at DiaTribe dot Com. Diabetic macular edema (DME) is a form of diabetic retinopathy. This hap...
The ophthalmologist included a lot of material in the email he sent me and the images were not the most usable. I talked to him about that....
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the eye diseases that does not have diabetes as a risk factor. Yet many people with diabet...
I have written about two of the three eye diseases that people with diabetes are at risk to develop – cataracts and glaucoma. Now it is dia...
Unfortunately, glaucoma is a group of related eye diseases that can cause blindness. Diabetes is one of the risks for glaucoma. Symptoms d...
Cataracts used to be the most common eye problem I saw among the elderly, but I don't know if it is true any longer. When your eye'...
Our January meeting started with Dr. Tom (previously shown as our local doctor) addressing both groups. First, he thanked our group for the ...
With the new guidelines for blood pressure (BP), I may need to talk to my doctor. My BP has been staying about 120 (systolic) over 60 (dias...
I am not concerned which name you use for medical records, but the opportunity for fraud and misuse of our medical records is becoming part ...
The source of this blog is a Scottish General Practitioner, Dr. Malcolm Kendrick. What he says is very true and I would agree with him. H...
This is a topic I have been requested to write about by a reader, but since I have been fortunate not to have this problem, I will be pullin...
I must admit my feeling about the help that pharmacists are providing to people with diabetes is very positive. Pharmacists are stepping up...
Now that the Food and Drug administration has declared trans fat unsafe, consumer groups already have their next target in the cross hair fo...
Because soils in the United States are generally low in levels of zinc, this may well be factual and part of the depression problem. Grante...
This Friday, I'll be giving an invited lecture at the University of Virginia, my undergraduate alma mater . I was kindly invited by a ...
Apparently, I have ignored some of the activities of the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) for too long. The membership has...
If you have served in the military, either on active duty or in the reserves or National Guard that were called into active duty, you should...
Two years ago, I wrote a blog post about diabetes and anger. In that post, I explored a lot of the day to day reasons why a person with di...
When participants that know something about self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) are excluded from studies, when participants are given o...
As a subscriber to a few American Diabetes Association newsletters, I received the following information. Granted it was written about New ...
His foot was black and woody; gnarled, like dirt covered ginger. I will never forget the terror in my mother's eyes as she fruitlessly t...
Ever wonder why there is so much confusion about whether some people are first a type 2 and then later are reclassed as a type 1 person with...
Early this afternoon, I received an email asking if I would attend an impromptu meeting to discuss what needed to be done as a doctor would ...
It is somewhat surprising that in today's world, with our smart phones, internet savvy and media hype, when we go to the physician for a...
A blog on the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) site caused me to read the entire blog. This blog is written by a registered...
This in one topic that will part of our January meeting, weather permitting. I was very skeptical when I first read this article. I can on...
Ask the average person to drink more water, and they'll make a face at you or come up with an excuse: "Water's so boring... it ...
This is news from last year, but still news. Is the gravy train stopping for doctors? We can only hope that this announcement from GlaxoSm...
When I wrote this blog, I suspected it was just the tip of the iceberg. With the disclosure of what our National Security Agency (NSA) is c...
Every new year, I rail a little bit against the concept of New Year's resolutions -- that time of the year when everyone is suddenly die...
I'm happy to announce that we're releasing a free e-book titled Why do We Gain Fat, and How do We Lose it? An Introduction to the Sc...
