October

There is now solid evidence that proper pharmacological and nonpharmacological management of the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) has a significant beneficial impact on morbidity and mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes (DM2).[1-2] While the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) suggested that controlling glycemia may not have a significant impact on macrovascular disease (although P=.052 is “marginally significant”),[3] one arm of the study demonstrated significant decreases in morbidity and mortality when pati

Background

My mother passed away this summer. She was elderly, 84 actually, and as one of my friends said, she had a “good innings.”

But, she was my mother and we are only issued one, and I miss her. She had led a full and varied life as artist, farmer, and entrepreneur. She was raised in the Great Depression by staunch United Empire Loyalists. She was widowed at 21 with a newborn son and remarried to a wild Italian at 26.

Editorial writing in this province is generally a piece of cake. There is so much stuff happening most of the time that editorialists like me have the luxury of picking a topic from a potpourri of very sexy, very current newsy items.