I was floored by some recent statements in my local newspaper from one trainer of diabetes alert dogs: … [Read more...]

I recently answered a question asking about signs of diabetes: I experience irregular heart beat, feeling weak and sometimes very thirsty and visit toilet as well. Is this a sign of diabetes? … [Read more...]

"Do not use with angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) or ACE inhibitors(ACEI) in patients with diabetes." Pretty strong words, and part of the newly-revised label for a blood-pressure drug called aliskiren. … [Read more...]

Several miscellaneous diabetes-related questions have accumulated, and I thought I'd tackle some of them here. … [Read more...]

Several questions have piled up about prediabetes (also spelled with a hyphen, like this: pre-diabetes), and I thought I'd tackle them all in once. … [Read more...]

Bariatric surgery to "reverse" diabetes is again in the news. On March 26, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a surgery study, Bariatric Surgery versus Intensive Medical Therapy in Obese Patients with Diabetes. … [Read more...]

I received the following e-mail: … [Read more...]

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services posted a "Fraud Alert for People with Diabetes" on March 13. … [Read more...]

"Low Glucose Suspend" (LGS) is a insulin-pump-related concept that you should be hearing more about as time goes by. … [Read more...]

A reader recently asked about a hormone I had never heard of: … [Read more...]