Diabetes Article World Diabetes Day - written by Beverly Thomassian, this ready-to-go article provides you with content you can pick and choose for a press release or other informational piece.

Diabetes Detectives Finding Uncommon Conditions-This article authored by Beverly Thomassian, RN, MPH, CDE, BC-ADM, provides health care professionals with strategies to detect common, yet often underdiagnosed, complications associated with hyperglycemia and diabetes. It also describes how medications, organ transplants, and chronic illnesses can cause hyperglycemia.

Diabetes Mellitus and Metabolic Syndrome-This chapter authored by Beverly Thomassian, RN, MPH, CDE, BC-ADM, originally appeared in Cardiac Nursing Textbook, 6th Ed, 2009, published by Wolters Kluwer and Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

Insulin Replacement Therapy-Authored by DES faculty member, Evelyne Fleury Milfort, this is an excellent white paper. It reviews strategies to effectively dose and adjust insulin for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. This chapter provides an in-depth overview of the diabetes epidemic with a special focus on the pathophysiology of diabetes and vessel disease. It compares the different definitions of metabolic syndrome and concludes with goals and diabetes treatment strategies. Overall, this chapter provides a comprehensive review of diabetes pathophysiology, heart disease, prevention and treatment strategies from a global perspective.

Paper Crane- written by Beverly Thomassian as a new nurse working at UCLA on the head and neck floor in the late 80s. Patricia Benner also writes an guest editorial on the special place health care providers hold in providing comfort during to patients during time of deep personal pain.

Practical Strategies to Improve Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes-This white paper is authored by DES faculty member, Evelyne Fleury Milfort, and published in the Journal of American Association of Nurse Practitioners (JAANP), June 2008. It addresses practical strategies to improve treatment of type 2 diabetes. The purpose of this review is to document the need for, barriers to, and available treatment options for patients with type 2 diabetes, with a focus on modern insulin and delivery systems.