Yet another trip through time here at the ‘Mine today. Back in 2005, I was marveling at people who care for pets with diabetes. Still am. Always will.
Is Your Pet Psychic?
(I’ve always loved that line.) But seriously, here’s something that blew my mind: my friend has a diabetic cat. She tests its glucose levels once a day with a standard-issue BG meter, and she gives it insulin injections twice a day. She…
From the “Advice Column” file today:
Sometimes finding a good endo can seem harder than finding your soul mate! Whether it’s disagreements over treatment or they seem to be stuck in the stone-age on A1c levels, it’s discouraging how difficult it is to find Dr. Right. We have all witnessed stories of people who have had to fight tooth and nail to get the right treatment or had to put up with a technophobic doctor. …
Welcome to Round 2 of my new blast-from-the-past series here at DiabetesMine. Once again, I note how little things have changed in four years! This post originally appeared exactly four years ago to the day, but if I didn’t tell you that, you might not notice. That’s because using the standard deviation for evaluating glucose results remains a much-discussed but not universally accepted method. Enjoy…
Standard Deviation Buzz
There seems to be a lot of…
The Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami never fails to sharpen the cutting-edge of D-research. Its latest invention is the so-called “oxygen sandwich” — a sort of gasket gadget designed to keep impermeable plastic from killing off insulin-producing beta cells incubating in the laboratory, bound for transplantation.
From the press release:
“One of the major challenges to islet cell transplantation as the treatment of choice for type 1 diabetes is the shortage of…
As an alternative to transplanting islets into the liver, which has limited success because cells tend to die off there, Dr. Camillo Ricordi and his colleagues at the Diabetes Research Institute in Florida are working on a tiny, implantable device that creates a safe haven for islet production elsewhere in the body. I call it a “reverse IUD” because an IUD is implanted specifically as an intrusion, to interrupt the natural course of cell bonding,…
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