Standing in the corner of a dark room, my eyes took a few moments to adjust to the darkness.
Ten feet in front of me, my mom sat at an eye-testing device the size of an oven. Next to her, a doctor stared at a dimmed screen, with two boxes displayed — one had a close-up of my mom’s right eye showing the inside crosshairs and the other resembled a line graph of what an eye-based…
What would you say if someone offered you a safe pill that could lower your blood sugar, help you lose weight, preserve beta cell function, and keep Alzheimer’s at bay?
Actually, that’s the wrong question. The question isn’t what you would say, but what would you pay?
That’s likely the question that was on the boardroom table at bio-tech firm Metabolic Solutions Development Company (MSDC), when they bet the $55-million farm on their pair of…
We don’t talk about it all that much in the heart of the diabetes online community (DOC), but there’s actually an incredibly vibrant and growing larger community of online patient advocates out there who are banding together to do great things. No matter if you have prostate cancer, fibromyalgia, chronic migranes, or… diabetes.
I’m a member of a group called the Society for Participatory Medicine and on their email list, so I get to see…
When he started writing his newest novel, True Believers, award-winning author and public radio show host Kurt Andersen didn’t think diabetes would become a part of the story the way it did. But what the Brooklyn author and longtime type 1 ended up with was just that: a book that weaves life with type 1 diabetes into the narrative in a brand new way.
As a fictitious first-person novel, the book opens a cracked window to…
Need help navigating life with diabetes? You can always Ask D’Mine! Welcome again to our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil has some advice on how altitude affects insulin and what kind of blood sugar checks might work best for someone snacking between meals — stuff you won’t want to miss!
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Edward, type 1 from Colorado, asks: Does…
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