Notes taken during the “Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) in the Management of Diabetes in Pregnancy” session at the American…
Hot off the press– my raw notes from the American Diabetes Association 2013 on immunotherapy trials in type 1 diabetes. My apologies that…
“I’d rather die of a heart attack than feel the way I do.” That is how I announced to Jessica on Tuesday that I had decided to stop taking statins. …
Great strides have been made recently in predicting who is most likely to develop type 1 diabetes, allowing researchers to identify the disease at the earliest stages of development and potentially intervene to preserve beta cell function at a much earlier stage and ultimately prevent onset of symptomatic diabetes.
JDRF has announced a two partnerships to support the development soluble glucagon formulations—an important step toward the advancement of future generation, fully automated and multi-hormonal artificial pancreas systems for people with type 1 diabetes (T1D).
Chicago!
I’m in Chicago for the annual American Diabetes Association (ADA) Scientific Sessions, and this is the biggest city-city I think…
The idea behind the NYC soda ban is to restrict access to large sodas because they are widely seen as contributing to obesity and the prevalence of diabetes. Sodas are something of a double whammy: sugary drinks are thought to contribute directly to the development of Type 2 diabetes by themselves, and they also contribute to obesity, which in turn, contributes to Type 2 diabetes.
I’ll just say it. I love CVS brand Assorted Fruit glucose tablets. The ones in the blue bottle. So does Gary. He doesn’t have diabetes, but munches…
There is very little to get excited about when it comes to growing up with diabetes. Blood sugar tests before gym class, counting carbs at the lunch table, and evading questions about insulin pumps are par for the course when you’re a child with diabetes. But there is one enviable quality of a childhood with diabetes: diabetes camp!
The first time I heard of Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) was over a year ago during a run with some people I didn’t really know. One of the guys I was running with…