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,…
Read moreI 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…
Read moreNot 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…
Read moreFirst, 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…
Read moreThe 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.…
Read moreFirst, 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…
Read moreAt 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…
Read moreLast 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…
Read moreRecently I have been contacted by quite a number of friends and relatives, all wanting to know what I think their recent diabetes screening test results mean. Today, I want…
Read moreWhen the ground-breaking Diabetes Control and Complications Trial, or “DCCT,” results were reported in 1993, for the first time, specific goals for glycemic control in patients with diabetes were recommended…
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