I think about the roles my children play because of diabetes, since childhood for them is anything but ordinary...
Category: Parenting (Children)
If your child's going through puberty they need more insulin because of growth, not necessarily because they're eating too much or did something wrong...
While we wait and hope for a diabetes cure, we make the most of the technology that helps us manage our disease...
Diabetes technology has vastly improved in the last decade, and most people with diabetes who have the opportunity to wear an insulin pump or a continuous glucose monitor are grateful for the assistance they provide. But even with these advanced tools, the biggest burdens of diabetes - the insulin dosing and blood sugar testing - still lie on the person with diabetes or a caregiver.
Halloween wasn't always about candy. Samira Kawash, also known as the Candy Professor, wrote, "The ritual of costumes, doorbell-ringing, and expectation of booty appeared for the first time in different locations throughout the country in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
The European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion on the extended use of Novo Nordisk’s basal insulin analogue, insulin detemir, in children with type 1 diabetes, aged two to five years. The CHMP decision was made after the review of data demonstrating that insulin detemir...
"Are you thirsty? Don't drink the bathwater, it's yucky. I'll get you something to drink." I walked into the kitchen, suddenly alert. With a sippy cup of chocolate milk in my hands
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...
New clinical trial data just published in Pediatric Diabetes shows that Levemir (insulin detemir), Novo Nordisk’s basal insulin analogue, is an equally efficacious treatment option for two to five year-old children with type 1 diabetes, compared with human basal insulin, but is associated with lower hypoglycemic risk. Children with type 1 diabetes who are aged under six years...