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WilD on
February 2, 2013
Welcome back to our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine!
In case you were expecting on this fine Feb. 2 morning to open your browser and see a certain friendly groundhog emerging from a burrow to predict this winter season, no dice. No Punxsutawney Phil here.
Instead, what you get is veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois, forecasting some real down-to-earth D-advice on out-of-range blood sugars…
With a Happy Groundhog Day to y’all,…
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WilD on
January 30, 2013
Don’t Google the InBar. If you do, you’ll find the Indiana State Bar Association, International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, an Israeli kibbutz in Galilee, or a night club in Croatia. You won’t find the D-friendly InBar snack. Not yet, at least.
But Dr. Don VerHulst, chief science officer of the year-old Michigan startup company InBalance Health, is out to change that.
As one of the co-founders of the small biz based in Wayland, MI…
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WilD on
January 26, 2013
Got questions about navigating life with diabetes? Ask D’Mine! Our weekly advice column, that is — hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil experiments with his home freezer after getting a question about how cold insulin can get before it proves unusable. Read on: you might just get chills hearing what he discovered!
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Mary, type 1 from North Dakota, asks:…
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WilD on
January 19, 2013
Got questions about navigating life with diabetes? You’ve come to the right place! You know… it’s Ask D’Mine, our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil’s offering some advice about new pumps and their little-read instruction manuals, as well as insights about wrist-style blood pressure cuffs and what they mean for people with diabetes who are prone to circulation concerns.
{Got your own questions? Email us…
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WilD on
January 17, 2013
In the January edition of the American Diabetes Association’s flagship professional journal Diabetes Care, the association has issued a document that lays out its wide-ranging official recommendations for diabetes care in the U.S.
This is the ADA’s annual update of their Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes, and the 56-page document deals with everything from classifying the various flavors of diabetes to the use of a 128-Hz tuning fork in foot exams. But unlike past…
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