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What You Should Know About Flying with an Insulin Pump

Enter every pumper's least welcome buddy - the air bubble. Your insulin pump (regardless of make or model) cannot elegantly handle the pressure changes during ascent and descent and is moving air bubbles and insulin into your body without ever recording evidence of it.

Balancing Diabetes, A Book By Kerri Sparling

You know Kerri Sparling as a diabetes advocate, international speaker, and blogger. Now she's an author, too. Check out her brand new book, Balancing Diabetes.

Finding True Love: Diabetes Style

This story is my best example of how diabetes – something initially terrifying – has brought me something incredible. Diabetes is always a challenge, but with my best friend next to me, it isn’t so bad. John and I understand each other, and we don’t let diabetes consume us.

Spare a Rose, Save a Child

A big shout out to Melissa Lee, who blogs at SweetlyVoiced, for writing this post about Life for a Child's Spare a Rose, Save a Child campaign. And thanks, too, for sharing it with us.

JDRF’s TypeOneNation: Now More User-Friendly

TypeOneNation’s goal is to support, engage and educate people living with type one diabetes, as well as their families and friends. This online community is a place to get answers to questions, join the conversation and connect with others not only in the United States, but around the world.

Book Review: Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris

When his most recent collection, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, was published last spring, the title made me wonder if Sedaris, who is over 50, was newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes or if it was his boyfriend Hugh or father or siblings – all people who make frequent appearances in his work – with a diagnosis.

What It’s Really Like to Have a Child With Type 1 Diabetes

A pediatrician with a child with diabetes told me her colleagues have no idea what it’s really like to have a child with Type 1 diabetes. There is a lot of talk about blood sugar levels and the threat of complications, but I hear less on the day to day side effects of high and low blood sugars, such as headaches, stomachaches or feeling shaky, that children often cannot put into words

50 Shades of Diabetes

Don't let the title mislead you... this is not an erotic novel where syringe and vial discover their passion for one another. 50 Shade of Diabetes is how one reviewer described Perter Arpesella's new novel, Good Like This.

Diabetes New Year’s Resolutions

I can’t resolve to keep my fasting blood sugars between 70 – 110 mg/dL every morning because there are more variables in play than simply my resolve. But there is a “CAN.” What I can resolve to do is test my blood sugar every single morning and make solid decisions based on that number, whatever it may be.

The Best Diabetes Articles of 2013

As 2013 comes to an end, we're taking a look back at our best diabetes articles of the year. From science and technology to personal essays to op-ed, we're been overwhelmed with the quality of our writers' work. We hope you've enjoyed reading as much as we've enjoyed publishing.