By
WilD on
September 17, 2011
Welcome to another edition of our diabetes advice column etradordinaire, Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
We hate to think about it, but winter is on its way, and vaccinations are on the mind. Wil takes an in-depth look at this prickly issue today, with a few warnings to the wise…
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Dusty from Alabama, type 2,…
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Since we tend to be pretty America-centric over here, we wanted to shine a spotlight on the annual conference for the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), which is Europe’s equivalent to the American Diabetes Association. EASD is a huge professional org for doctors, researchers, nurses, students, and so on, with 7,000 members — from 110 different countries!
In addition to the annual conference, the EASD also produces their own trade publication, Diabetologia,…
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By
AmyT on
September 14, 2011
Employers enforce some stupid policies sometimes, for sure, but this one absolutely takes the cake! (or the chips, as it were) Last week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was forced to file a federal court suit against Walgreens for throwing a long-term employee with diabetes out on the street in 2008 after she ate a bag of $1.39 chips to offset a glucose low. She paid afterward, but hadn’t wanted to abandon her cash…
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By
AmyT on
September 13, 2011
From the did-you-know file: today, Sept. 13, is National Celiac Disease Awareness Day.
I have it. Or at least I’m forced to live like I do, with a severe wheat allergy that forces me to eat only gluten-free foods. Ugh! I’ve bitched about this difficult condition before: here, here, and here.
Life can be awfully tough in a world literally rolling in a staple food ingredient that makes you very sick. Recently I stumbled on…
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