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Children with Diabetes in California Schools: ADA Issues Statement

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) issued a statement expressing extreme disappointment in the California Court of Appeal ruling in the case of American Nurses Association et al. v. O’Connell, which prevents non-medical school personnel from volunteering to administer insulin to California schoolchildren who are not yet able to self-manage their disease...
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Why Wasn’t I an Overweight Kid?

We ate Kraft singles on white bread, chewy granola bars, potato chips, graham crackers, and popsicles...
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Diabetes: The Next Generation

We pricked his 18-month-old fingers with a spring-loaded needle gun, and milked his blood onto coded strips ...he couldn’t do much more than cry. Which he did. All the time.
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School Nurse Shortages and More Diabetic Kids

I just saw an article in USA Today about how the school nurse shortage is affecting kids with diabetes and it made me very grateful, as I always am,…
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