I am staring out the staff lounge window at the Cumberland Hospital in Fort Greene Brooklyn...
So, we’re getting close to two weeks of this experiment — I’ve been counting each carb, measuring each insulin dose, and trying…
I travel a lot and I generally enjoy it. Luckily, I have been blessed with a short memory and easily forget the aggravation of flying...
Part 2 of a 3 part series on the recent JDRF/University of Geneva study of α-to-β-cell conversion in mice. Read Part 1 and Part 3.
The…
I worked in Athens for a year and had a chance to eat a lot of wonderful local Greek food. This recipe was inspired by a traditional dish made with rice and spinach. I’ve changed some of the ingredients, but the lemon flavor that I loved so much in the original recipe remains the same.
The new artificial pancreas system developed at Boston University was able to maintain near-normal glucose levels without causing hypoglycemia in a small group of type 1 diabetic patients in the first clinical trial conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital....
Remember how yesterday I commented that, after fasting from 8:30 am till 6pm, I was feeling better about the past week’s diabetes experiment?…
Sanofi-aventis announced the results of the first placebo-controlled study of the GetGoal Phase III clinical trial program of lixisenatide (AVE0010), a once-daily GLP-1 agonist developed for patients with type 2 diabetes.
The 12-week study involved 361 patients with type 2 diabetes not currently receiving glucose-lowering therapy and with HbA1c between 7 and 10%...
Diabetics want good taste just like everyone else, and more precise labeling information without all the quarter-cup-per-serving gibberish...
Well, I just had what was probably the dorkiest evening of my diabetic life. I haven’t eaten out in the past week, since I’m trying my…