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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What do you get when one Australian diabetes blogger decides to hit the States for a multi-city tour aiming to connect him with a whole mess of U.S. online diabetes advocate friends, asking them to show up at either Los Angeles, Kansas City, or New York City?
You get Simonpalooza, a diabetes meet-up of epic proportions. Conceived earlier this summer when Simon, a 30-something type 1 who guest blogged for us about living with diabetes…
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All across the world, countries are facing a difficult economic time. But there are few places in the developed world in as critical condition as Greece, where unemployment has reached staggering heights. Like the U.S., Greece’s healthcare is built on private insurance companies, and nowadays, more and more people with diabetes are unable to afford their medications.
In our continuing series on diabetes across the globe, Lena Zafeiriou, a 37-year-old type 1 living in Athens,…
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