OMG… did you all know that Halle Berry is pregnant?!
The actress who is also a fellow PWD (person with diabetes) is having her second child. At age 46.
Seriously, the news is out. We tweeted it a few weeks ago. Everyone is talking about this — magazines and entertainment news sources galore.
OK, celebrity dish fans may care more about this news than we do, but what makes it relevant to the Diabetes Community…
There’s been a longstanding discussion among patient advocates over the need for new, more descriptive names that would better differentiate between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The debate has hit a climax this week, in the wake of a new online petition issued by two passionate D-Moms, who’ve gathered more than 2,800 signatures to date and even enlisted the support of some renown researchers in their call for a “rebranding” of disease types.
The…
Got diabetes questions? You came to the right place! Ask D’Mine is our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil explores a so-called “lazy pancreas” as described by a doctor, and also how PWDs may need a tad more Vitamin D than other folks.
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Rita, mystery type from Missouri, writes: Since I was 18, I…
In theory, diagnosing diabetes should be fairly simple. Have a fasting blood sugar over 127 mg/dL? Congratulations, you’re probably in the D-Club. Have a blood sugar reading over 200 mg/dL any time? Congratulations, you’re definitely a club member.
But not so fast! Just because you’ve been inducted into the club that no one voluntarily joins, that doesn’t mean the path forward is clear. Things just aren’t the same — or as easy to recognize — as…
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…