Catherine Price recently blogged about the fact that her allergy medicine, Allegra, might be increasing her blood glucose levels. Since Mike is also taking allergy medication, I wondered if his medicine could have the same effect.
Call me late to the game, this book came out last year, but I just read Dr. David Kessler's The End of Overeating, Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. Wow! If you haven't read it, you should. It's never too late to tell someone about a good book.
I can no longer look at food as anything but salt loaded on fat loaded on sugar.
A nationwide, government-sponsored study finds that people with a common form of diabetic retinopathy can benefit from a medication first developed to combat another potentially blinding disease, age-related macular degeneration. According to EurekAlert the study found that treating diabetic macular edema (DME) with Roche's ranibizumab (Lucentis) eye injections...
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation announced today that it is partnering with Living Cell Technologies (LCT), a New Zealand-based biotechnology company focused on developing cell based therapeutics, in a Phase II clinical trial to study the safety and effectiveness of transplanting encapsulated insulin-producing cells from pigs as a treatment for type 1 diabetes with significant hypoglycemia unawareness....
The Jonas Brothers are set to perform a concert at Danny DeVito’s house. The concert will benefit the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.
The event is in support of Dr. Francine Kaufman, Nick Jonas’ own diabetes doctor. Jonas was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 13...
Are you a diabetic in you dreams? Not your idyllic musings, of course, but your dreams while sleeping.
I often have dreams about diabetes and being…
Bayer Diabetes Care announced the introduction of the DIDGET™ blood glucose monitoring system in the United States. The Didget meter is unique because it is the only blood glucose meter that connects directly to Nintendo DS™ and DS Lite gaming systems to help kids manage a lifelong disease...
This is the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill; a tiny thing that has revolutionized society. Taking the pill does tend to increase blood…
Vitamin D's influence on type 1 diabetes is thought to be related to the vitamin's ability to suppress autoimmune responses...
It’s been almost two weeks since I ran the Rotterdam marathon. I took a week off of running to let my body rest and started running again on Sunday with…