For months now, we’ve been reporting on one of the weirdest emerging stories of the coronavirus era: the increasingly apparent fact that COVID-19…
Category: Diabetes Complications
Insulin Treatment is Associated with Increased Mortality in People with Type 2 Diabetes and Covid-19
A new study in Cell Metabolism has suggested that patients with COVID-19 and Type 2 diabetes that received insulin treatments were significantly…
Every time fall comes around I hear people debating:
“Should I get the flu shot?”
“Should I vaccinate my kids?”
I’m always surprised to hear just…
In late May, we wrote about the first studies to explicitly analyze the health outcomes of people with Type 1 diabetes during the coronavirus pandemic.…
Our early understanding of the novel coronavirus, and the CDC recommendations that have largely driven American policy and behavior, were based…
People with type 1 diabetes are gaining more weight than ever, and it’s a problem. Over the last generation, rates of so-called “double diabetes”…
People with Type 1 diabetes are roughly 3 times as likely to die of COVID-19 as the nondiabetic population, and are at a higher risk than those with…
The early data on COVID-19 deaths in America is shocking and outrageous: “African Americans account for more than 40% of COVID-19 deaths in the…
It’s often said that Alzheimer’s disease is the medical condition people fear most—even more than cancer. This is understandable, considering…
Why You Really Do Need to Rotate Injection Sites
“Rotate your injection sites.” Most of us have heard this advice, but do we really understand why…