in this issue

From the Editor

Feel the excitement

Learning Curve

A DPP-What? A closer look at a new kind of drug, Januvia

Logbook

A story of bigotry on a radio show

diaTribe dialogue

Talking with two diabetes titans, Dr. Irl Hirsch, endocrinologist extraordinaire, and Arnold Donald, striking new head of the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation)

diaTribe Profile

Caps off to this intensive manager, Phil Southerland

New Now Next

Diabetes miscellanea not to miss

trial watch

Get involved on the cutting edge

Test Drive

Our highs and lows while trying out Symlin

What We're Reading

Cutting through the information clutter

Conference Pearls

Around the world with your doctors - this issue to South Africa to the International Diabetes Federation conference and to Boston, to study weight management