The Spa at Norwich Inn in Norwich, Connecticut, offers various programs for health and wellness, and I went there wondering what services it could provide for clients with diabetes.
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Meri Schuhmacher writes the blog Our Diabetic Life. Her husband Ryan passed away earlier this month after a battle with cancer. Meri, a beloved member of the diabetes community, is now left to care for her fours sons alone, and three of her sons have type 1 diabetes.
Celebrity chef Sam Talbot has partnered with the glucose monitors maker OneTouch to launch the What’s Cookin’ Down Home Healthy™ Sweepstakes. The sweepstakes, designed to spread the word that eating healthy with diabetes can also be easy and delicious, will run for five weeks, beginning September 11th and is open to individuals 18 or older by visiting the OneTouch Facebook page.
There are no funds for blood glucose meters or strips so Dr. Pendsey guesstimates insulin doses by age and weight. Preliminary results from a baseline study led by Drs. Zuijdwijk, Ahmet and Pendsey suggest suggests that average A1Cs are very high.
LFAC supports about 100 of the Dream Trust’s patients, and is always trying to do more.
Raising a child with diabetes is anything but easy, and comes with round-the-clock challenges. Leighann Calentine, author of D-Mom Blog has written a book, Kids First, Diabetes Second, which serves as a resource for parents and caregivers of children with diabetes. In the book, Leighann shares her family’s experiences with her daughter’s type 1 diabetes.
When Dr. Mariela Glandt, an endocrinologist, volunteered to treat African refugees in Tel Aviv, she had no idea she would meet a type 1 diabetic like Samuel Agant, 28, from South Sudan. Below, Dr. Glandt shares Samuel’s story of living on the streets of Tel Aviv with type 1 diabetes, without a work permit, without food, and without a constant supply of insulin.
Eli Lilly and Company and Boehringer Ingelheim announced a global agreement to jointly develop and commercialize a portfolio of diabetes compounds currently in mid- and late-stage development. Included are Boehringer Ingelheim's two oral diabetes agents—linagliptin and BI10773—as well as Lilly's two basal insulin analogues—LY2605541 and LY2963016—as well as the option to co-develop and co-commercialize Lilly's anti-TGF-beta monoclonal antibody.
These are some of the questions I ask myself about any person when deciding whether or not to tell them I have diabetes. I don’t try to hide my diabetes. I mean, I wrote a book about it. But, I’m careful about revealing my diabetes to just anyone. Doing so is always a leap of faith and a high stakes roll.
I’d like to believe that anyone and everyone I tell would be understanding and accommodating to this fact of my life.
BioLineRx, a biopharmaceutical development company based in Israel, announced that research underlying its EDP 10 project for the treatment of type 1 diabetes won the Hebrew University's prestigious Kaye Innovation Award for...
People get diabetes because they’re fat. They get diabetes because they don’t exercise. They get it because they’re lazy and they lack discipline in controlling their appetites. They get diabetes because they’re out of shape slobs. People get diabetes because they deserve it....