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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...

Two great blog posts I’ve read recently. You should too.

From the always on-point and eloquent Dr. Bryan Vartabedian at Baylor and his blog 33charts, “The case for new physician literacies in...

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....

Seven tips to prevent medical technology from ruining the doctor-patient relationship

Does this sound like something that has happened to you? You are driving, you stop at a red light, and all of a sudden you find that...

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...