What is the biggest problem with treating Type 1 diabetes?  The experts all say it’s that the insulins we have to inject simply aren’t fast enough; they don’t really mimic the effect of natural pancreas delivery because they take too long to kick in.
Several companies are rushing to solve this problem with the obvious: super-fast-acting [...]

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Michelle Rago dreams of documenting children’s life with diabetes through an extensive photo exhibit — and she needs our help to do it.
Michelle’s name will be familiar to many ChildrenwithDiabetes families as one of the Elementary Program Staff for the CWD conferences and as the winner of the Jeff Hitchcock Distinguished Service Award in 2006. [...]

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Yesterday we received a letter from Abbott Diabetes Care via certified mail. My husband even had to sign for it. What could it be? Did I win a prize? Owe them money? Were they offering me a job?
BEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPP… none of the above. It appears that several batches of FreeStyle [...]

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I was as surprised as the rest of you to hear earlier this week that Smiths Medical is killing off the Cozmo insulin pump. Although I guess we should’ve seen it coming. Heck, the economy is in bad shape, and companies everywhere are cutting their loses. {So sorry for the layoffs, my friend [...]

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The “Real-Life Guide to Diabetes” just published by the ADA is definitely something new. It almost looks a little like my daughters’ favorite “Smart Girls’ Guide” series, or those kids science books all chock full colorful images, highlighted quotes and pop-out boxes to grab your attention in bunches of little “content bites.”
So [...]

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