I woke up drenched in sweat, the sheets cold and clammy beneath me. I grabbed my phone and stumbled down the stairs, gripping the walls for support. Subconscious reflex led me to unlock the front door after I made it down the stairs. Getting from there to the kitchen felt like a walk across the Serengeti. I grabbed the juice from the...

On January 13th, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation announced a non-exclusive partnership with Animas Corporation to develop an automated, partially closed-loop system to help control blood sugars — the first step toward a fully automated “artificial pancreas.” For anyone with Type 1 diabetes this was, of course,...

A $6,000 insulin pump with an on-board computer chip is not alluring. Neither is the white mesh adhesive patch on my naked abdomen or the length of nylon tubing that connects the patch to the pump. There is only illness, and there is no way to make that sexy. After several years as a medical device wearer, I know. Negligees and nudity...

When I was twelve, a friend of our mother’s came to pick my sister and me up from school during lunch.  She explained that Jonathan, our 18-month-old brother, was in the hospital, and that he would be fine, and that our parents would explain everything when we saw them after dinner that night.  We spent several nervous hours doing...

Amy Tenderich’s blog, DiabetesMine™, is one of the most comprehensive online diabetes resources.  In Diabetes Mine you’ll find information “on every imaginable aspect of living with diabetes — from food scales to pharma news and book reviews, to the exasperating things other people say.”   Amy is a journalist, book author...

Dr. Kevan Herold is Professor of Immunobiology and Medicine at Yale University. The focus of his investigative work is on developing new ways to prevent and treat Type 1 diabetes. He has studied and is developing novel immunologic and metabolic approaches that have been able to prevent the progression of Type 1 diabetes and is involved...

Richard Lane, president of Diabetes UK, has type 1 diabetes and was one of the first people in the UK to receive islet cell transplants.  He was the first person in the UK with type 1 diabetes to come off insulin altogether. Richard received the first of three transplants in March 2005 after a long history of diabetes-related complications,...

I sat in a river raft with my cousin and two buddies, about to take on the Upper Gauley River in West Virgina, the second toughest white water in the United States, and the seventh most ferocious in the world.  The Gauley has five distinct class V rapids, and countless others that will make you feel like you are on a wooden rollercoaster. ...