Diabetes Care: "Lagniappe" And "Seeing Is Believing"!

With this issue, our editorial team celebrates its 4.5-year mark in overseeing the scientific aspects of Diabetes Care . As you have come to expect, we have been consistent in our attempts to update you on our progress by informing you of all the changes, innovations, and successes of the journal. We still feel that each issue provides new information that does more than provide an incremental contribution to new knowledge—it also offers providers translational perspectives that relate new findings to everyday clinical practice and poses new questions to the research community.We feel this past year has been nothing short of spectacular for the journal! A year ago, in the July 2015 issue, we titled our report “Status of Diabetes Care : New Challenges, New Concepts, New Measures—Focusing on the Future!” as we felt the journal was at that time very much on an uphill trajectory (1). In the January 2016 issue, we titled our report “Building Momentum: Taking on the Real ‘Issues’ of Diabetes Care !” (2). In that issue, we described what has become an incredibly well-received initiative at the journal: frequent special thematic monthly issues that focus on timely and important clinical care and clinical research topics.The thematic issues to date, which at that time numbered 10, were summarized in a table in the January 2016 issue (2). For example, our October 2015 issue focused on the recommendations and other guidelines for care from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in the form of Position Statements, Scientific Statements, and Consensus Reports, described collectively as “Guiding Principles for Diabetes Care” (3). We ended the calendar year by dedicating our December 2015 issue to highlight insulin use after 90 years (4). In that issue, we provided a collection of articles that demonstrated the diversity of recent innovations in …