By taking the science from the world of the researchers and doctors into the world of the patient, we remove some of the alienation from our own bodies...
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I don’t want to go through life preparing for the worst...
Actor Chris Noth and Novo Nordisk have teamed up in a national education program, Ask.Screen.Know., to highlight the need for early diabetes screening and detection in light of the continuing escalation of diabetes prevalence. As an ambassador for the program, the award-winning actor currently appearing on CBS' show "The Good Wife" and known for his roles as Detective Mike Logan on "Law and Order" and...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will meet with 150 children and teens with type 1 diabetes during the 2011 Children’s Congress which takes place June 20-22 in Washington D.C. Justice Sotomayor, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of eight, will share her experiences of type 1 diabetes as she's pursued her professional dreams. Organized by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the “Role Models with Type 1 Diabetes”...
In the morning, I think of my father. Perhaps only for a moment, and perhaps it is not so much a thought as an evocation, an impression. But he is there with me in the bathroom there in the cool bottle of insulin, snug in my hand like an egg in a nest...
The Obama administration has taken a rare step and urged the California courts to allow school employees to administer insulin shots to the state's 14,000 diabetic schoolchildren if no nurses are available, according to the San Francisco Chronicle...
Diabetics, in particular, are at risk for unsolicited advice. Any person with diabetes has heard versions of the question, Should you be eating that?
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granted Amylin Pharmaceuticals a temporary restraining order (TRO) related to its litigation with respect to the Amylin / Lilly diabetes collaboration agreement...
The conditions in Korle-Bu, a government-owned hospital, are poor. The sink water doesn't always run. Late one night during a heavy rainstorm, the ceiling leaked...
Because so much of my daily life involves diabetes, I had forgotten that a roller coaster means something other than a day of terrible fluctuating blood sugar levels...