I met Michael Aviad a few years ago at a diabetes event on the East Coast. He was diagnosed in 2002 at age 32, very similar to my story. He and his wife are both type 1 (!), and run the online D-magazine ASweetLife.org. They are both the sweetest people — living in a tiny, controversial country that’s always making headlines, mostly in a bad way.
For this edition of our Global Diabetes series, we…
You’re out in public, surrounded by people without diabetes, and you need insulin. So, instead of pulling up your shirt and showing some skin, you opt to just inject through your clothing.
Gasp… Oh my! What are you thinking?!
The habit of stabbing a syringe through your clothing is a controversial one that’s long been debated within the diabetes community.
Curious about the actual safety aspects of this practice, our correspondent Mike Lawson decided to…
We’ve been traveling the world for the past year or so, bringing you different perspectives on life with diabetes in our Global Diabetes Series. This month, we’d like to introduce you to Claudia Labate, a twenty-something in Brazil (the worlds’ 5th largest country), who’s lighting up the D-scene as part of multiple advocacy efforts in her country.
Diagnosed at age 10, Claudia says she feels lucky to have great support from family and friends. She’s been…
The holiday season can be an especially difficult time for those who don’t have the comforts of a permanent address and are forced to live on the streets. Toss a health condition like diabetes into the mix, and life can get pretty unbearable.
We’d heard that some homeless shelters and clinics were making special efforts to help homeless folks get a handle on their health, and we wondered what exactly could be done. Our correspondent…
Ever look at a diabetes product and wonder what the heck the developers were THINKING? People have to live with this stuff, after all! It’s even more interesting when they occasionally get it right…
Kim Blickenstaff, CEO of Tandem Diabetes Care, was unable to attend our DiabetesMine Innovation Summit event this year, but reached out to me to offer an inside view of how Tandem “got its groove on” to create the t:slim, the first-ever…