A couple of days ago the Food and Drug Administration sent out an alert that it suspects a connection between some of the 30 reported cases of pancreatitis among people with diabetes who take Byetta and the fact that they are taking it. The FDA’s alert disturbed Wall Street. [Read more →]

Our doctors commonly prescribe ACE inhibitors and ARBs when we have high blood pressure. They help protect our hearts. [Read more →]

Practically every day the media reports on another new herb, vitamin, or mineral that supposedly will help us control or even cure our diabetes. It’s been almost impossible even for people who try to keep up with diabetes developments to know which of these supplements might help us. [Read more →]

A pill form of GLP-1 may be coming. That’s the gist of a late breaking abstract at the American Diabetes Association’s annual convention that concluded at noon today. The embargo on this abstract expired a few minutes ago. [Read more →]

The high point of the second day of the American Diabetes Association convention in Chicago has been not something I learned about diabetes in general. It is instead what I learned about myself. [Read more →]

Hypos are in the news, thanks to prosecutors in Redwood City, California. They arrested Doug Burns for assault and resisting arrest last month after police sprayed him with Mace and wrestled to the ground outside of a movie theater where they thought he was drunk. [Read more →]

Whenever I offer a cup of coffee to a friend of mine, he always replies, “I don’t do drugs.”

He’s right that coffee is a drug, but even he does drugs. Everybody does some drugs. [Read more →]

In my most recent blog article here I highlighted several of the things that diabetes and sleep apnea have in common. There is one more similarity: when we have diabetes or sleep apnea – or both conditions – we have to become an advocate for our own treatment. [Read more →]

Some of my best friends are endocrinologists. But a primary care physician treats my diabetes.

Dr. Jeff Gerber is an outstanding doctor who is up-to-date on diabetes, weight loss, and nutrition. While his office south of Denver is about an hour from my home in Boulder, he more than makes up for this geographical undesirability by scheduling appointments quickly and by being easily reached by email and phone. [Read more →]

You can find information about the medicines you take all over the Internet. Hype and scams surround us. So, what information can you trust? [Read more →]