Can I Hear It For The Embryonic Stem Cells?
Great news from the National Institutes of Health and JDRF: yesterday, NIH announced that 13 new human embryonic stem cell lines have been approved…
Diabetes in Antiquity
I don’t want to start a war of the nerds or anything, but since Catherine Price brought up her love of Latin, it seems like a fine time to confess that…
What Do You Call Your Diabetes?
As my friends know, I am a huge dork — especially when it comes to language. Thanks to some excellent middle and high school Latin teachers…
Diabetes: The Next Generation
We pricked his 18-month-old fingers with a spring-loaded needle gun, and milked his blood onto coded strips ...he couldn’t do much more than cry. Which he did. All the time.
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Phase III Trials Show Roche’s Type 2 Drug Better Than Januvia
The Swiss -based pharmaceuticals and diagnostics company Roche Holding AG announced headline results from the second and third of eight T-emerge Phase III studies for taspoglutide. Taspoglutide is the first once-weekly human glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue being developed to address the important unmet needs of patients with type 2 diabetes....
Thanksgiving, Meet My Pancreas
Now that the carbohydrate frenzy of Thanksgiving has passed, I wanted to write an update on how my pancreas coped with the madness: it did a great…
Give Abbott Your Feedback
I love my CGM, don’t get me wrong. But there are times when I run into problems with my continuous glucometer, like when it falls off during…
Should I Screen My Sons For Diabetes?
There’s a lot of guilt involved in parenting, and I tend to find myself feeling guilty even over small things, like telling my sons a white lie in order…
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Sunday Brunch: Asparagus and Smoked Salmon Frittata
Springtime is asparagus time in most parts of the world, so it's a perfect moment to make an asparagus and smoked salmon frittata recipe, which I've adapted from Tom Valenti's terrific new cookbook, You Don't Have to Be Diabetic To Love This Cookbook.