Each year over 7,000 young adults with type 1 diabetes begin college.  In many cases, the transition from a home setting with parental supervision to the college environment is overwhelming.  Christina Roth, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 14, learned this when she enrolled at University of Massachusetts Amherst...

Lisa Hepner has had type 1 diabetes for 20 years. She’s been a successful documentary filmmaker for over 17 years, and her current project, Patient 13, which she’s co-directing with her husband Guy Mossman, is her most personal work to date. Patient 13 is a feature documentary about the race to cure type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune...

This year’s Children With Diabetes Friends For Life conference was the organization’s 12th annual get-together in Orlando, Florida.  It drew hundreds of families, adults and children with diabetes, doctors, experts, and even celebrities with diabetes like singer Crystal Bowersox. I’ve read many blog posts about how...

President  Barack  Obama The  White  House 1600  Pennsylvania  Ave  NW Washington,  DC  20500 Dear  Mr.  President:   We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, request that you attend the United Nations High-­Level Summit on Non-­Communicable Diseases (NCD) in September to push for better health for all of those...

  Dear Readers, I write about diabetes almost every day.  I write to inform you about the latest diabetes news, diabetes technology, and diabetes research.  When I share my personal stories about living with diabetes, I try to weave in humor.  I want to make you smile so that you remember that we can live well and be happy despite...

In the last decade the total number of people with diabetes in the United States (over age 20) grew from 15.3 million to 26.8 million, according to the International Diabetes Federation Atlas.  In other words, the number of diabetics jumped from 8% of the adult population to 12.3%. And things don’t look like they’re...

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, and few are as close to the front lines of diabetes awareness as the American Diabetes Association (ADA). We were pleased, therefore, to get a chance to talk to Dr. Richard M. Bergenstal, the President of Medicine and Science of the ADA, about what awareness means, and what the ADA is...

If you’re like most folks in America, you have a pretty specific view of pharmaceutical sales reps- they’re right up there with used car salesmen and fortune tellers. (Read: can’t trust ‘em.) Most people believe that pharma sales reps are Barbies in business suits who use fancy dinners and vacations to bribe doctors into using...

Melissa-Marie Kauffman is a third generation type 1 diabetic.  In 1950, Melissa’s grandmother, a sixteen-year-old single mom, received a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes.  Thirty-nine years later her son, Melissa’s father, was diagnosed with type 1, too.  He was forty-years-old.  Melissa herself was diagnosed on Thanksgiving...

San Diego boasts one of the most cutting-edge scientific and biotech communities in the nation, and diabetes doesn’t get overlooked by the local clinical and research organizations. San Diego is home to diabetes-focused corporations like Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Dexcom, patient care groups like Taking Care of Your Diabetes and...