Heart awareness month – that’s this month – started out with a bang. Heart-health was all over the web and we were reminded that obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and triglycerides (symptoms that typically accompany type 2 diabetes, also known as metabolic syndrome are markers for heart disease and put...

Right now, as I type, I have a knot in my stomach. It’s a familiar feeling, often accompanied by an inability to take deep breaths, that is my body’s way of telling me that I am very stressed out. The reason, in this particular case, is that my husband and I have decided to move back to the east coast, and are going to be...

All the news and talk of healthcare recently has started me thinking; I have not read the healthcare bill, and I don’t have any answers for Congress, but there is one particularity of my experience that I think is worth sharing: I have Type 1 diabetes, and I work for a start-up. For those of you who aren’t intimately familiar...

I always imagine that diabetics who work in offices have a relatively easy time dealing with low blood sugar. If they start to feel shaky or sweaty, they can get up, go to the bathroom, test, and then return to their seats–perhaps drinking some juice or munching on chocolate if they did in fact have a low blood sugar reading. The...

Hypoglycemic “incidents” are not funny when they happen. Most often, they are scary and embarrassing, if not downright humiliating. After a while, though, you can usually look back on the event and find some humor. Sometimes it takes a few days, sometimes a few years. The “Celery Incident,” detailed below, festered...

I’ve been stretching before I run for as long as I can remember. I started stretching before runs because my uncle always did and since he was the “adult” runner I knew I did it too. Now I do it because it feels good, and if I don’t stretch before I run I feel like something’s missing. It’s always made sense to me that stretching...

Great personal news: my piece in Popular Science about anti-CD3 monoclonal antibodies (currently best known as teplizumab) and Type 1 diabetes was just featured on the New Hampshire Public Radio show Word of Mouth. (You can read about the segment, and listen to the interview, here.) It’s always great to get to talk about something...

I remember when I was 10 years old, I told my friends (and enemies) to watch out: when my blood sugar got low, I turned into a non-green version of the incredible hulk and became very strong and dangerous. Well….it was partially true. I certainly got cranky. John Strishak’s post reminded me of my “incredible hulk”...

Do you have a great idea for Type 1 diabetes research? Check out this contest from InnoCentive, which is offering a cash prize of between $2,500 and $5,000 for the best ideas for future projects. The details: This Challenge is asking InnoCentive Solvers to formulate well-defined problems or hypotheses aimed at advancing our knowledge about...

New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has proposed a tax of 12 cents per can of soda (a penny per ounce). During his weekly radio address, Bloomberg said the soda tax would discourage consumers from buying sugar-laden drinks. According to the NYT, Bloomberg noted research suggesting that such a tax would reduce consumption of the...