If you or a loved one has been diagnosed as prediabetic or diabetic, you aren’t alone – it’s estimated that 98 million Americans are prediabetic, and another 38 million live with diabetes. Diabetes ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new position statement focuses on making patient experiences a key component of diabetes care. The statement ...

Chronic disease management is a pact I enter into with patients. In this pact, I commit to helping them find new and safe ways to achieve their best quality of life. Every patient’s experience is ...

Diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) is delivered by diabetes care and education specialists. Collaboratively, they work with a person who has diabetes to create a plan of care that ...

Self-efficacy involves one's belief in their own ability to carry out tasks successfully. A psychological construct studied by psychologist Albert Bandura since the 1980s, it has been shown to have an ...

Diabetes is a chronic illness that takes a lot to manage. The illness requires carefully maintaining correct blood sugar levels that are affected by things such as diet and exercise. But insurance ...

Approximately 1.4 million people will receive a diagnosis of diabetes this year, per the American Diabetes Association. That means 1.4 million conversations with patients about what it means to have ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD Fear of insulin cognitive overload and workplace constraints can derail gestational diabetes care, but ...