Given that new tools to detect hypoglycemia, such as continuous glucose monitors, are now available, lead the authors t…
Diabetes Advocacy
The Amazing Benefits of Being a Diabetes Advocate
We took a terrible thing in our lives – the diagnosis of our beloved daughter with an incurable disease that requires co…
Thanks to Mary Tyler Moore…
Mary Tyler Moore was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes some four decades ago, and through the years she’s been perhaps the …
2014 Patient Voices Contest Announced
DiabetesMine has announced its 2014 Patient Voices Contest - a program which grants scholarships to 10 applicants who wi…
Changes for Jeff Hitchcock and Children with Diabetes
Jeff Hitchcock and his website, Children with Diabetes, have gone through some significant changes recently. These chang…
How the New York Times Could – And Should – Use Engaged Patients to Revolutionize Medical Reporting
The New York Times is one of the most respected and trusted papers in the country. It has the ability to affect policy a…
The Cost of Staying Alive with Diabetes: A Response to the New York Times
Like many other people with diabetes, I had a complicated reaction to the recent story in the New York Times, “Even Smal…
Wake Up! It’s the ADA’s Diabetes Alert Day 2014
March 25th is the 26th Annual American Diabetes Association Alert Day, a one-day “wake-up call” asking the American publ…
Spare a Rose, Save a Child
A big shout out to Melissa Lee, who blogs at SweetlyVoiced, for writing this post about Life for a Child's Spare a Rose,…
JDRF’s TypeOneNation: Now More User-Friendly
TypeOneNation’s goal is to support, engage and educate people living with type one diabetes, as well as their families a…