The good news is that intensively controlling glucose significantly reduces heart disease as well as damage to the eyes, nerves, and kidneys in people with type-1 diabetes.

This is the most important diabetes news of the year. This is the remaining piece of the puzzle with regard to our ability to take the teeth out of diabetes and make it a less dangerous disease.

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

The major way we've reduced the death rate from heart disease is through lifestyle changes: eating better, exercising more, smoking less. It would require a lot of people to change the way they live, but there's no reason to think we can't have the same impact on Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.

I always thought it was an old person's disease. My grandmother had both eyes done, so maybe it was hereditary.

True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.