Dr. Alan Marcus is a diabetes specialist who practices in Laguna Hills, California. He is also a medical advisor to MiniMed Technologies and a spokesperson for Novo Nordisk Insulin. Dr. Marcus also serves as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine for …
Vital Energy: A Scientific View of Diabetes
Diabetes is a disease of the substance sugar, but is really about energy. In the final analysis, diabetes is a disease of poor energy metabolism. It is manifest in problems with sugar, the crucial fuel, and insulin, the crucial energy …
The Pump: It Changed Their Lives
Tamara Norris and Cyndie Flores are insulin pump users who started their own business selling pump accesories. In talking with DIABETES HEALTH, Tamara and Cyndie discuss their first experiences using the insulin pump, and their decision to go into business.…
Ask Dr. Young: Can diabetes cause absent-mindedness?
Can diabetes cause absent-mindedness?
Dr. Young: Repeated hypo-glycemia may lead to brain damage which can manifest itself as absent-mindedness or any other neurologic deficit. However, one must have repeated low blood sugars that are long-lasting. As a general rule, mild …
New Needle Disposal Program in San Francisco
On July 1st,1991, San Francisco introduced a pilot program, initiated by Scott King, Editor in Chief of DIABETES HEALTH, to help reduce the risk of city garbage collectors getting stuck by syringe needles.
People with diabetes are now able to …
Imuran Or Insulin?
We have known for years that insulin-dependent diabetes begins when a patient’s immune system attacks and destroys its own insulin-producing cells. A logical strategy is to thwart the immune attack through drug intervention. In 1984, several newly diagnosed diabetics were …
Where Do You Inject?
Managing diabetes means keeping blood sugar as close to normal as possible. This, of course, means managing the delicate balance of diet, exercise, stress and insulin. Scientists have now uncovered another variable, and this one is fairly easy to control, …
Blood Sugar And Feelings
How easy is it for parents to guess their own child’s blood glucose levels? Is the child crabby because he is overtired or is it low blood glucose? Are the children themselves any more accurate in guessing their own levels?…
The Exchange System Doesn’t Work!
For the past 10 years, I have been telling people with diabetes to drink fruit juice only if they are having a hypoglycemic reaction. My feelings on this issue have now been backed up in a recent study published in …
The Fight to Derail Kidney Disease: Simple Tests, Effective Drugs Help Improve the Odds
Improved blood sugar control, smoking cessation and aggressive blood pressure treatment are mainstays for preventing or treating the development of kidney disease in people with diabetes. Increasingly, physicians are also turning to a class of drugs called ACE inhibitors to …
