Expertise and extensive experience have an important place in information about diabetes. But first impressions count too. The experts can miss key experiences when they aren’t coming fresh to a topic. [Read more →]

A friend asks me how I am going to keep off the weight now that I’ve reached my goal of a body-mass index (BMI) of 23. It’s a tough question. [Read more →]

Now I know why so many diabetes specialists hold Irl Hirsch in such high esteem. Dr. Hirsch knows diabetes. He is an endocrinologist who has had diabetes since he was 6 years old. He is also a professor at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle and directs its Diabetes Care Center. [Read more →]

We know that exercise somehow reduces our risk of heart disease, the most common complication of diabetes. But we really haven’t known how. [Read more →]

Today we have even more bad news in two separate studies about the diabetes drug Avandia. With the bad news we get all the time about diabetes you might wonder why I report more negative stuff.

It’s because we have much better alternatives. [Read more →]

Children with diabetes are different from other children. As I write this I am surrounded by thousands of these children. They are different, it seems to me, by being more responsible than other groups of children that I have known. [Read more →]

First-phase insulin release is beginning to get the recognition it deserves. But we still have a long way to go to understand it.

“It’s a bit esoteric,” Dr. Alain Baron, Amylin Pharmaceuticals’ senior vice president of research, told me Friday. “Most physicians don’t understand its significance.” [Read more →]

It was easier for me to find the trail at nearly 11,000 feet in the Indian Peaks Wilderness yesterday than to find the theater where I saw Michael Moore’s documentary Sicko. That’s because I hike a lot and this was the first time I have ever gone to a movie theater since 2004, when I moved to Boulder, Colorado. This isn’t a big town – barely 100,000 people, but I just didn’t know where the theater is and had to drive all around to find it. [Read more →]

For years I’ve recommended to the meter manufacturers that they include activity recognition in their testing options. Now some companies are beginning to do just that. [Read more →]