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 more“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…
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 moreIn 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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