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Top Five Takeaways and Themes From ADA2020 80th Scientific Sessions… Virtually

ADA’s 80th Scientific Session wrapped up today, and there was a lot of ground covered, despite the fact that we all watched from our...

Continuous Glucose Monitoring: What It Means for the Definition of Diabetes

I recently published a Commentary on CNBC about the future of glucose tracking using continuous glucose monitors. Here is the link –...

Diabetes Technology in 2018

Linking here to two resources I published recently: First, my presentation at the April 2018 UCSF Diabetes CME course. Here are those...

Smart Insulin Pens are here… finally.

The first “smart” insulin pen has finally hit the market. This is a big moment for diabetes care, as the digital toolbox expands. (I...

Feedback Loops and Teachable Moments: The Future Diabetes Care Paradigm

The current paradigm of office visits every three months for PWDs (people with diabetes) is not the right model (nor is it for other...

The Future of Diabetes Management: Social Networking and New Technologies

I gave a talk yesterday to a great crowd at the annual UCSF CME conference, Diabetes Update. The slides from my presentation, “The...

The Surgeon’s Viewpoint: Swedish Obese Subjects Study and Bariatric Surgery

The Swedish Obese Subjects study is a fabulous example of how very-useful practical knowledge can come out of a well-conducted cohort...

Can bariatric surgery prevent diabetes?

I’ve previously written here about the 2 major New England Journal trials looking at treating type 2 diabetes with bariatric surgery....

Do insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors actually improve outcomes?

Nearly every day in my practice, a patient with diabetes asks me whether he or she should switch from multiple daily insulin injections...

Physician empathy associated with lower rates of diabetes complications

I’ll admit that I’ve not yet read this journal article to form my own conclusions, but I found the headline interesting nonetheless....

A fantastic rant about diabetes technology from Scott Hanselman

This fantastic rant about the frustrating state of diabetes technology from Scott Hanselman, a type 1 diabetic, has been making its way...

Telemonitoring intervention for diabetes has durable effect: Extension of DiaTel study

Published in an Online First this week by JAMIA was the extension of the original DiaTel study published in Diabetes Care in 2010. The...

Is bariatric surgery really going to be the new standard for type 2 diabetes?

There has been a lot of publicity lately over the two articles released as online firsts this week in the New England Journal of...