Anyone else catch the story yesterday about how children with Type 1 diabetes are living longer than previous generations of kids with the disease? According to a study published on July 30 in Diabetes (and summarized here), there’s been about a 15-year …
Last week, diabetes headlines were dominated by a new study from the Faustman Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, published on Wednesday, August 8th on PLoS One, suggesting that a 90-year-old tuberculosis vaccine called BCG might hold promise for people liv…
This summer I met Catherine Price for the first time. I had been looking forward to this meeting for a long time and when we met and hung out I felt as if I have known her for ages. Catherine, Jess, and I met at a café’ in Philly. Catherine...…
When I was at the ADA Scientific Sessions in June, I had the chance to sit down with John Mastrototaro, Vice President of Research and Development for the diabetes business unit at Medtronic, and talk with him about some of Medtronic’s upcoming products …
You’re welcome to use the bathroom in my house but please, don’t look up. As Jess and Mike learned on a recent Philadelphia visit, our bathrooms are something of a disaster zone: the ceilings have been ripped out, there are missing floor boards, an…
As readers of this blog may know, I have been exceptionally frustrated by diabetes recently. Usually, my diabetes I are like cranky travel companions: we don’t always get along, but eventually we sleep in the same bed at night (and that sleep tends to ra…
A week or two ago, Mark Bittman’s column in the New York Times caught my eye. Titled “Which Diet Works?” it was a summary of a recent study, published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association, that evaluated the effects …
I just got a response to my previous post about the ADA Scientific Sessions that I thought would be worth reposting here and responding to, since I know it’s an issue that lurks beneath the surface in many conversations about pharmaceutical companies and…
I think I’m going through some sort of withdrawal after attending the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions this past week in Philadelphia. It was five whirlwind days of product demonstrations, scientific talks, happy hours, meeting o…
...VP of research and development in its diabetes unit, and the importance of exercise and diabetes management. It’s been a whirlwind! I’m also tweeting from catherine_price . Send questions and comments my way. 12:24 Conversation with Mads Krogsga…
