How to Manage Insulin-Dependent Diabetes on the Cheap (and do it well)
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…
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 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 moreThere was a very interesting article in the NYT about 6 weeks ago (Tuesday, July 21. 2015, p D2) about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, widely know as…
Read moreFYI: There is a very interesting (and long) article in the NYT today that is must reading if you are wondering why medical care costs so much these days. The…
Read moreI read an interesting article in the NYT today, entitled “Lawmakers attack cost of new hepatitis drug,” written by Andrew Pollack. The article was about a new drug used to…
Read moreA few days ago, I wrote an entry about the fiasco surrounding the new cholesterol guidelines recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC). …
Read moreIf you haven’t heard about the new cholesterol guidelines published last week by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC), you could not have been listening…
Read moreOn October 1, 2013, it became possible to sign up for a health insurance plan on the health care exchanges as part of the Affordable Care Act or ACA (aka ObamaCare). …
Read moreOver the past few years, I have written a fair number of entries about the US health care system, but I am always uneasy when I “stray” from specific endocrinology…
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