Social determinants of health describe the interaction between social, economic, and environmental factors and how they can influence a person’s health. Read below for...

Symlin: A Sleeper Drug Slowly Rises

For obvious reasons, people with diabetes are encouraged to wear medical alert jewelry, though sometimes they prefer carrying a medical information card in their wallet...

Brave steps into the high tech pump world.

The Changing Diabetes Bus, sponsored by Novo Nordisk, was set up on Pier 39 during the ADA meeting in June in San Francisco. It arrived from a tour in India and is next...

Get smart - Intelligence from your doctor's recent diabetes meetings.

Delta Burke is an emmy-nominated Broadway actress who has also appeared in movies like What Women Want and TV shows like Boston Legal and most notably Designing Women ...

Measured strides away from pre-prediabetes.

A closer look at incretins and Byetta.

Our highs and lows while trying out Symlin.

At the American Diabetes Association’s 71st annual Scientific Sessions held in late June in San Diego, we became excited about a number of therapies in development...

Dismantling Avandia, Actos and TZDs.

We wrote about the bus when we saw it at the ADA meeting in Chicago. We crossed paths with it again when we were at the EASD conference in Amsterdam and in Berlin during...

Matters of the Heart: Diabetes and Relationships

Insulin: How to Restore a Tarnished Miracle

On April 26, the FDA will either approve a new drug for obesity called rimonabant...or they won't. We do think it will be approved, however, with warnings about...

Live from DT, EASD, AADE and TCOYD.

Integrated Diabetes Services has put together a mealtime insulin-dosing calculator. This is a great tool to help patients learn how to “optimize” the amount of insulin...

Kerri downloads from day 1.

Even as a 13–year-old, Jennifer Dorn knew that there could be a perfect bag, one that could be both a purse and a “diabetic pack.” Now in her late 20s, Dorn has founded...