Weeeelll, hello. Somehow I managed to miss national de-lurking week last week (must’ve had my head up my… blog). So now, a belated invitation for all of you who come here to look but not touch, to please reach out and touch that keyboard!
Let me know who you are, at least, where you come from, and what’s your connection to The Big D. That would be diabetes, for any of you newbies. But if…
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Editor’s Note: Oooh, this post is so TIMELY, in light of the fact that the LA Times ran a front-of-the-business-section story on widespread doubts about inhaled insulin this weekend. Our gal feels differently. Read on.
Back in October, DiabetesMine.com spoke with Jennifer Haws of Des Moines, IA, pioneer in the use of new inhaled insulin from Pfizer. I made her promise that she’d give us an update after three months, so we could discover if…
When people find out they have diabetes, they sometimes do crazy things. As we’ve discussed recently, lots of people go into denial mode and do nothing, which is what turns this disease into a death sentence over time, sadly. Then there are the few who stand up and fight right away.
Denise Armstrong, a 52-year-old secretary from Mount Carmel, Illinois, was recently featured in Reader’s Digest in a story called “How I Saved My Own…
When I read the other day that Eli Lilly was halting construction of a new insulin plant in Virginia, I didn’t make that much of it. Another day, another dollar-based business decision, right? But it seems there are some strong currents running through the insulin market that will have tangible consequences for us folks who live on insulin, indeed.
Is Eli Lilly really distancing itself from its historical covenant with diabetes? This is the company…
The other bit I wanted to share from my day at the Behavioral Diabetes Institute was our discussion of what gets in the way, i.e. why do many patients so consistently neglect their diabetes? That is, the first hour of my time at the BDI was spent in a “provider” session sharing concerns with a group of people including CDEs, psychologists, nutritionists, and reps from BDI sponsor Roche Diagnostics.
The topic du jour was what…