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AmyT on
November 12, 2012
Last week, a virtual who’s-who of about 500 researchers and scientists working on diabetes technologies gathered in Bethesda, MD, for the 12th annual meeting of the Diabetes Technology Society. More than 70 presenters gave talks, mostly introducing new research, over the course of three days.
Myself and DOC consultant/advocate Kelly Close both gave talks about the power of patient-led social media (!)
But the most exciting things this year, to my mind, appeared to be…
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By
AmyT on
October 19, 2011
For the next few days, the diabetes the online community is rallying around “LADA Awareness Week” to call attention to Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults. This is obviously the type that turned my own life upside-down.
We know there’s some controversy about the specific definition of this type of diabetes (see my own definition post + comments), so we decided to query some leading experts from around the country for their thoughts on this nebulous…
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AmyT on
December 6, 2007
Allie Beatty, formerly of TheDiabetesBlog, has established a new multimedia site “Allies Voice” where she has launched a crusade. The issue at stake is a substance called C-peptide, which in a healthy body, is present in tandem with insulin, but is removed during the manufacturing process of human insulin analogs that we PWDs must inject. Allie and others believe that Big Pharma is doing Type 1 patients a grave disservice by removing this substance, and…
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