When I started writing our 411 series on diabetes complications, I expected that it would take me roughly a year to cover them all. Off the top of my head, I knew the Big Four: blindness, kidney failure, neuropathy, and heart disease. I knew there were some “lesser known” — or at least, lesser recognized — complications like depression and erectile dysfunction. But we’re now 18 months into the 411 series, and there are still more. Oy!…
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The holiday season will hit in just a few weeks, and we’re prepping our pumps to handle the onslaught of holiday cookies and big family dinners involving waaaay more food than necessary. But diabetes isn’t the only thing that can make big meals a challenge. For some people, a condition called gastroparesis can cause more trouble than just worrying about post-prandial spikes from overdoing the cranberry sauce.
Gastroparesis is complication of diabetes, and you might…
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By
AmyT on
August 19, 2010
From the “Weird and Wonderful” File:
Another booth I happened upon last month while visiting the Children with Diabetes conference in Orlando definitely stopped me in my tracks: dental stem cells for diabetes?! Could someone be seriously running a business on this concept when the science is far from mature?
Turns out the Store-A-Tooth™ booth was run by a Provia Laboratories, a Lexington, MA-based outfit offering a new service for preserving the stem cells found…
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