The obvious solution to managing a road trip with diabetes is, of course, to plan ahead and pack snacks. But that’s not so easy when you’re staying in hotels without kitchen facilities. And it’s pretty hard to explain to hungry, cranky kids why you’re thinking of driving 30 miles out of the way to find a store that sells expensive containers of sliced cucumbers when “look!” there’s a 0.96 cent donut for sale down the street.
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This year the AADE Annual Meeting will take place August 7-10 in Philadelphia. We'll be sharing live updates and tweets from the meeting, so be sure to follow us on Twitter @A_Sweet_Life and Facebook to get the updates as they appear.
British Home Secretary, Theresa May, has revealed her recent diagnosis with type 1 diabetes.
According to a BBC report doctors initially thought Mrs May had type 2 diabetes, but two months ago it was revealed to be type 1 diabetes.
There are just two days left to enter the DiabetesMine PATIENT VOICES SCHOLARSHIP CONTEST!
Winners will get a free trip to California to take part in our 2013 DiabetesMine Innovation Summit this fall at Stanford University.
Looking back now with the eyes of someone who attended the Friends for Life conference I can say that I regret - to a certain degree - not attending camps when I was younger. Being around others with diabetes has given me greater awareness of what it means to live with diabetes.
The JDCA defines a Practical Cure as one that enables diabetics to live their lives with blood sugar testing once a week or less; to eat an unrestricted diet; to require only a simple regimen of medication; to sleep worry free; to experience only minimal diabetes side effects; and to experience fast recovery from surgery.
The idea behind the NYC soda ban is to restrict access to large sodas because they are widely seen as contributing to obesity and the prevalence of diabetes. Sodas are something of a double whammy: sugary drinks are thought to contribute directly to the development of Type 2 diabetes by themselves, and they also contribute to obesity, which in turn, contributes to Type 2 diabetes.
There is very little to get excited about when it comes to growing up with diabetes. Blood sugar tests before gym class, counting carbs at the lunch table, and evading questions about insulin pumps are par for the course when you’re a child with diabetes. But there is one enviable quality of a childhood with diabetes: diabetes camp!
Join us from June 21-25th for live updates out of this year's American Diabetes Association's Scientific Sessions in Chicago. More than 1,200 cutting-edge presentations by prestigious diabetes experts will explore the latest research breakthroughs in the meeting's eight theme areas
Nationwide Children’s Hospital recently developed an online resource to help parents manage their child’s diabetes more effectively and better…