Current Issue: August 2008

UP FRONT
News

NUTRITION AND FITNESS
Clinical Obesity Management to Reduce CVD Risk
By Paul Poirier, MD, PhD, FRCP, FACC, FAHA

HYPERLIPIDEMIA AND HYPERTENSION
Primary Aldosteronism Update: Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment
By Gian Paolo Rossi, MD, FACC, FAHA

THYROID DISORDERS
Tyrosine Kinase Inhibition: Novel Treatment for Advanced Thyroid Cancer
By Rebecca L. Brown, MD; and Ezra E.W. Cohen, MD

WOMEN'S ENDOCRINOLOGY
Menopausal Symptoms and Treatment: An Update
By Heidi D. Nelson, MD, MPH

PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY
Breastfeeding Curbs Type 2 Diabetes Later in Life
Reviewed by Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis, PhD

COVER STORY
Taking the "Ex" Out of Exercise
By Gary Scheiner, CDE

How to Motivate Your Diabetes Patients to be Physicially Active
By Sheri R. Colberg, PhD, FACSM

Facilitating Lifestyle Behavioral Changes
By Marion J. Franz, MS, RD, CDE

Are Patients or Outcomes More Important?
By Martha Mitchell Funnell, MS, RN, CDE; and Robert M. Anderson, EdD

Stress Management Interventions Using the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change
By Kerry E. Evers, PhD

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In Memoriam: Michael E. DeBakey, MD