I just had an essay about living with Type 1 diabetes published in the New York Times, and let me tell you this: few things make me happier than feeling…
According to Diabetes UK the European Commission has approved Sitagliptin ,known as Januvia, as an add-on to insulin (with or without metformin) for people with type 2 diabetes. Most type 2 diabetics can control their condition with a combination of diet, physical activity and conventional medication. Januvia was approved by the FDA in 2006...
The closed loop system is the Holy Grail sought after as an engineering solution for type 1 diabetes. Unlike glucose sensors which need quite a bit…
We can prevent diabetes in animal models and we are trying to figure out how to prevent it in man...
If you’ve clicked on this post, it’s probably too late to warn you — but I’ll try anyway: this post contains blood. If…
With so many healthy and nutritious ingredients, this pie style cheesecake could almost be part of the main course, though I prefer to save it for an after dinner treat in our house as I enjoy the dessert and tea ritual at the end of a meal (the boys love to make tea every evening and are now old enough to hold the kettle of hot water after it has boiled; they are growing up).
I suppose that any time a new kind of medical treatment is developed, it’s important to test its efficacy before deciding whether it’s…
I’m usually quite good at avoiding penalties — whether we’re talking about avoiding credit card late fees or feeding the parking…
Good news for fans of embryonic stem cell research — according to the Associated Press, the board of regents at the University of Nebraska…
Thanksgiving, for me, conjures memories of my family getting together, laughing, eating, catching up with one another’s lives, watching the Macy’s Day Parade on television and my grandmother (followed in later years by my mom) stressing over the meal.