Colin Close offers an expert commentary on the latest studies on nephropathy in diabetes. Summaries of the papers are included. ...

Today’s diabetes world is fast moving and exciting; knowledge is accumulating at an astonishing rate. To help understand the present, however, it sometimes helps to examine the past. In this installment of Tattersall’s Tales, Robert Tattersall provides a biography of US endocrinologist Fuller Albright, who had a keen focus on being a clinical investigator rather than an administrator. His approach yielded a great range of new ideas and clinical findings....