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Articles by Melissa Lee
Sweet Siblings: Diabetes Youth Advocates Offer Support
For kids and teenagers living with type 1 diabetes, it can be hard to find the resources and communities that click for …
Diabetes UnConference: It’s Tailored For You
One of the beautiful peculiarities of the UnConference is the way in which, by the end, we couldn’t have told you who ha…
Assess Your Prediabetes Risk in Under One Minute
86 million people in the U.S. have prediabetes, but 90% of them don’t know they have it. 30% of these individuals will t…
Spare a Rose, Save a Child With Diabetes
I will never forget the story I heard from Life for a Child several years ago about the children who stood at the end of…
Making It Simple: Bigfoot’s Approach to the Artificial Pancreas
Bigfoot’s goal is to make pump-sensor therapy simpler than the pump companies before them have. They envision themselves…
23 Hilarious Diabetes Sniglets We Just Made Up
diabetic - [old English] a term once used to describe people with diabetes
diameter – the distance travelled by a perso…
Beyond Type 1: Beyond Compare
Lucas doesn’t see Beyond Type 1 as a traditional diabetes nonprofit, but more like a seed-funded tech startup, as they h…
The Race Toward an Artificial Pancreas: Where Are We Today?
While we will not see a true artificial pancreas - a closed-loop insulin pump and continuous glucose monitoring system -…
7 New Diabetes Products to Look for in 2016
Another insulin coming to us in 2016 is Lilly’s new basal insulin, Basaglar – a form of insulin glargine (which you may …
