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Risk Factors for Adverse Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: New Data

By endodoc August 16, 2018 Diabetes Mellitus No Comments

This week’s New England Journal of Medicine or the “NEJM” (Volume 379, No. 7) contained two very interesting articles about type two diabetes (T2DM).  The first was entitled: “Smoking Cessation,…

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Deja Vu: Glycemic Control in Children with Diabetes Mellitus

By endodoc June 13, 2018 Diabetes Mellitus No Comments

I was dismayed by an article in the June 2018 issue of Diabetes Care (unfortunately you can’t read the article unless you have a subscription to the journal, have a…

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How to Manage Insulin-Dependent Diabetes on the Cheap (and do it well)

By endodoc July 3, 2017 Diabetes Mellitus, Health Care Systems/Delivery No Comments

Not long ago, I wrote an entry about the extraordinarily high costs of insulin. What I didn’t do in that entry was to provide an approach to therapy that could…

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Hemoglobin A1c: Is Lower Always Better?

By endodoc June 9, 2017 Diabetes Mellitus No Comments

First, I must apologize once again for such a long time between entries.  My only excuse is that I have been very busy with other things.  I will try to…

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The most important thing we still do not understand about diabetes mellitus

By endodoc November 11, 2016 Diabetes Mellitus No Comments

The other day I received a telephone call from Susan, the tearful mother of a former patient of mine.  She told me that her son, Robert, died the day before.…

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Why Does Insulin Cost So Much? Did I Answer The Question Posed in My Last Entry?

By endodoc August 11, 2016 Diabetes Mellitus, Health Care Systems/Delivery No Comments

First, I apologize for the long hiatus between entries.  I have had trouble finding anything worth writing about; it has been mostly a rehash of what we already know.  I…

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Why Does Insulin Cost So Much?

By endodoc May 10, 2016 Diabetes Mellitus, Health Care Systems/Delivery No Comments

At 11 o’clock on the morning of Monday,  January 23, 1922, a young Canadian boy, Leonard Thompson, made history.  He had been diagnosed with diabetes, which at that time was…

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So Doc, Am I Going to Die From My Diabetes?

By endodoc November 15, 2015 Diabetes Mellitus No Comments

“So doc, am I going to die from my diabetes, and what complication will I get first?”  This is exactly what a young man with diabetes asked me the other…

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Is Diabetes a Disability?

By endodoc November 8, 2015 Diabetes Mellitus No Comments

Last week, I was quite surprised to find an article in the “Science Times” section of the NYT (Tuesday,  October 27, 2015), entitled “Failing on Diabetes.”   The article was written…

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Is “Prediabetes” A Disease?

By endodoc April 13, 2015 Diabetes Mellitus, Miscellaneous No Comments

In my last entry (April 12, 2015), I discussed how to diagnose diabetes and prediabetes.  But, I never did discuss what it means to have prediabetes and what should be…

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