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Why You Should Be Depressed About the Government’s Attitude Toward Diabetes, Part I

First, an update on my last post, about Oregon’s decision regarding limitations on test strips for people with Type 2 diabetes. According to DiaTribe, Oregon’s Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC) voted on December 5 on a revised proposal on reduced access to blood glucose test strips for people with Type...

Petition to Prevent Oregon From Severely Limiting Test Strips

According to an update I just got from DiaTribe, Oregon is considering severely limiting access to glucose test strips for people with Type 2 diabetes. This is one of a series of recent examples of an extremely worrisome trend toward lowering test strip coverage for people with Type 2 diabetes,...

How Does Your Diabetes Compare?

MyGlu.com, the online diabetes community for people with Type 1 diabetes, just came out with a cool new tool that allows you to compare your own experience living with diabetes to that of more than 26,000 other people who have Type 1. (Thanks to David and Ginger at Diabetes Daily...

What Being Mugged Taught Me About Diabetes

...instinct, and that part of my brain responded immediately and forcefully: “This is really not the moment to ask him to prove it.” With that realization in mind, I then discovered what “Crime Victim Catherine” (different from, though perhaps related to Police Officer Barbie) does next when threatened: I start...

Raise Your Pants, Raise Diabetes Awareness

Happy Diabetes Awareness Month! Mike and I had the wonderful opportunity to partner with Novo Nordisk to create a video about diabetes. I’m very grateful to Novo Nordisk for playing along with my silly side and to Catherine Price for her stellar interviews (and for wearing those pants in public)....

ASweetLife Turns 4: The Best Diabetes Blogs of the Year

...With Diabetes (CWD) conference in Orlando, Jane Kokernak, faced her celiac diagnosis with courage, Catherine Price completed a draft of her book, Molly Johannes attended her first CWD conference, and there’s so much more… Every year on ASweetLife’s anniversary we like to look back at some of our favorite blog...

A Diabetes Exercise Success Story

I write so many blog posts about my difficulties with diabetes and exercise that I feel the need to share an actual success story. Yesterday was a beautiful fall day in Pennsylvania, and my husband and I decided to take part in the annual Covered Bridges ride in Bucks County...

When Diabetes Technologies Fail

Does anyone else remember the scene in the early 90s movie, Reality Bites, where Winona Ryder’s character is on a job interview and someone asks her to define the word “irony”? And she’s in an elevator and she’s unable to get out anything coherent before the door closes, and so...

Why You Should Worry About the Accuracy of Your Glucose Test Strips

...in this issue: CMS recently rolled out competitive bidding for glucose test strips, a highly controversial process which set the reimbursement amounts that Medicare is willing to pay for glucose test strips. These new prices went into effect on July 1, 2013. You can read Medicare’s summary of the changes...

Medtronic’s MiniMed 530G System with Low Glucose Suspend: FDA Approved

...percent shorter in length and 69 percent shorter in sensor size [not transmitter]). At the moment the FDA approval is only for people ages 16 and up, but Medtronic is filing for pediatric approval, as well as approval for it to be integrated with its MySentry system. Its retail price...