evidence-based medicine

Ask D’Mine: No Insulin Needed?, Alternative Medicine’s Bad Rap

By WilD on January 28, 2012

{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Yup, you guessed it: it’s another edition of our new diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
Alex from Canada, type 1, writes: I was diagnosed roughly 9 months ago. Since then, my insulin requirements have increased every now and then. Last week, I needed 16u of basal insulin in the morning, and from that…

The “Patient-Centered Medical Home”: Too Good to Be True?

By AmyT on March 3, 2010

Those of you who follow me on twitter may know that I traveled to Washington DC late last week to take part in a “roundtable event” discussing paths to better diabetes care. Now, I’m no policy-maker, and certainly no expert on the crazy mixed-up reimbursement system in this country. I was there, again, to talk about what’s wrong with the way most diabetes patients are treated now, and what’s needed to make it better.
Once…

Growing Your Own ‘Decision Tree’

By AmyT on February 23, 2010

To what degree is the state of our health really in our own hands? According to author Thomas Goetz, it very largely is. In his new book The Decision Tree, published last week, Thomas argues that since we live in a world where data on anything, including personal health, is abundant, all we need to do is feed this data into a personal flow chart that will aid us in making the right decisions.
He…