Hard to believe we’re already a quarter of the way through 2013! This Spring hasn’t exactly been a warm one for many of us, and some of us (like me) are staring out the window at snow right now. But, at least we’ve had some outstanding diabetes blog posts to keep us entertained while staying warm inside.
In no particular order, here are some of the posts that caught our eye during the month of…
April showers bring May flowers… and they also bring us some of our fave blog posts! Here’s our very own monthly diabetes “blog carnival”:
For WEGO Health’s April series of health prompts, Sue reflects on things you need to learn the hard way, like… diabetes sucks?
Stacey Divone takes the new Accu-Chek Fastclix lancing device for a test drive.
Legendary type 2 blogger David Mendosa muses on the “wonderdrug” metformin: is this something we all…
My dad has hypothyroidism, as does my grandmother. For my whole life, my dad has taken a tiny little pill every morning to make sure his metabolism functions properly. I always thought that compared to diabetes, thyroid disease wasn’t very “serious” — all my dad needed to do was pop a pill! — and that it was nothing I needed to worry about anyway. But then, because of my diabetes and my “genetic predisposition,” my endocrinologist insisted…
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The relative accuracy of blood glucose meters has of course been in the spotlight of late, since the FDA held a hearing to “crack down” on this issue last Fall. Funny, but I always assumed this had more to do with the technology inside the meter than the test strips themselves. Silly me.
One of this year’s buzzwords at the ADA Conference in Orlando last week was the “PQQ Enzyme” {glucose dehydrogenase (GDH)-pyrroloquino-linequinone (PQQ)} –…
Dr. Stephen Ponder, who has Type 1 diabetes himself, has been a pediatric endocrinologist for 20 years. He is director of the Children’s Diabetes and Endocrine Center of South Texas at Driscoll Children’s Hospital. He’s also been working with a company called Diabetech on a diabetes monitoring device called GlucoMON for the past several years. Today, he has some big news to report.
But first, for those who are unfamiliar: GlucoMON is “a small, portable…