When our daughter, Bisi, was first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, we received three days of intensive training in the h…
Articles by Katie Bacon
The Dexcom Follow App Crash, and the Ensuing Outrage
This past holiday weekend, as hundreds of thousands of loved ones caring for people with diabetes know, the Dexcom Follo…
Tandem’s Control-IQ Explained
Last fall, I wrote about how glad my husband and I were that our daughter, Bisi, had pushed to switch to the t:slim X2 …
Can Anti-Inflammatories Prevent Type 1 Diabetes?
About six months after our daughter, Bisi, was diagnosed with diabetes, in 2012, my husband, son, and I were all tested …
Successfully Raising a Child with Diabetes on a Low Carb Diet: A Four Year Update
When I last interviewed Ekaterina Lochoshvili-Griffin, in 2014, her son Alexander was still honeymooning after his diagn…
The Benefits of Tandem’s t:slim X2 Insulin Pump
When it comes to type 1 diabetes, my husband and I have always been resistant to change. A year after Bisi was diagnosed…
The Promise of Smart Glucagon: No More Living in Fear of Hypos
Most people who follow developments in the diabetes world have probably heard about efforts to create smart insulin, whi…
Lilly to Fund Sigilon Therapeutics’ Encapsulated Cell Research to Treat Type 1 Diabetes
April’s announcement that insulin maker Eli Lilly would invest up to $473 million in Sigilon Therapeutics and the …
How a Low Carb Diet Can Benefit Children with Type 1 Diabetes
For the past four years, the people in the Facebook group TypeOneGrit have been working to help each other achieve norma…
Are Microbiome Changes a Cause or Symptom of Type 1 Diabetes? (part 2)
Two years ago, I interviewed Alex Kostic, who was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard e…
