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WilD on
December 1, 2012
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.
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Rita, mystery type from Missouri, writes: Since I was 18, I…
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WilD on
October 13, 2012
Happy Saturday! Welcome back to Ask D’Mine, our weekly advice column hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil offers thoughts on the risks people with diabetes (PWD) face when getting ink, and those international differences we see in glucometer result numbers!
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Jessica, type 1 from Georgia, asks: Am I risking life and limb by getting a tattoo and taking…
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AmyT on
September 4, 2012
If you have type 2 diabetes and you use a glucose meter — or if you have a meter but don’t use it regularly for some reason — we need your help. I have been asked to compile an article for the ADA journal Diabetes Spectrum on T2 patient feedback and their experiences with glucose monitoring.
For this purpose, we are running a brief survey over at DiabeticConnect and I ask you to please, please (pretty please!) take…
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AmyT on
August 4, 2011
Hey PWDs: Have you ever read the headline of an article and thought to yourself, Gee, that sounds familiar? That’s what we thought last week when news of a nano-tattoo for monitoring blood sugar started popping up again. We first heard about this technology way back in 2002, and then again in 2009, and even in 2010. So is anything really new there?
Turns out the latest is that scientists at Northeastern University are integrating…
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A couple of years ago, at the ADA Conference, Medtronic’s booth featured a car equipped with glucose-sensing technology right in the dashboard. We all giggled. Cool idea… sort of. Right?
And what do you know? Yesterday, Ford Motor Co. and Medtronic actually unveiled a prototype of this system (!), enabled by Ford’s SYNC technology, a sophisticated Microsoft-based digital interface that lets drivers and passengers control their cell phones and MP3 players via wireless connections and…
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