It doesn’t seem possible. In this day and age, with all the advanced medicines and devices, the diligent attention so many of us pay to our glucose control and that of our diabetic children… How can a healthy, happy child with diabetes, seemingly in such good control, simply pass away in her sleep without a peep or a warning sign that might have alerted her loved ones that something was wrong?
But it did happen,…
Who’s tried Abbott’s new FreeStyle test strips with their fancy new “ZipWik” technology? These are the ones with the Butterfly on them, and the new tapered ends that poke out for much-improved blood uptake. I wrote about them when they were first introduced in this Test Strip News post.
Trouble is, now that they’re being shipped out to customers, nobody’s sure whether they’re compatible with the built-in meter on the OmniPod.
A bunch of people…
Embryonic stem cell research has huge potential toward a cure for diabetes. OK, I said it. If you find this topic too upsetting, you can opt out now and don’t bother reading the rest of this post…
Strides are being made in turning stem cells into functioning beta cells, and some really exciting news coming out of the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) is the possibility of turning stem cells into beta cells…
You all know how much we hate the term “compliant,” and especially its antonym “noncompliant”— suggesting a bunch of naughty, misbehaving patients who are simply too lazy or stubborn to follow orders. Ugh!
It’s been encouraging in the last few years to see many healthcare and pharma professionals realizing how un-PC the term “compliant” is, because it doesn’t reflect the least bit of empathy for just how difficult it is to perform some pretty unpleasant…
I’m grateful to Manny Hernandez over at TuDiabetes for working to kick off a special awareness campaign this week just for adults diagnosed with what used to be known as “juvenile diabetes.” At the time I was diagnosed, the doctors around me were sure it must be type 2 diabetes. I was in my late ’30s, after all. Never mind that I’d shrunk down to skeletal size and gone into DKA! But I’m getting ahead…
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