As many of you know, I’m currently studying to become a Certified Diabetes Educator. So I was delighted to have the opportunity to attend the American Diabetes Association’s annual Advanced Postgraduate Course in New York City on Feb. 23 — a two-and-a-half-day conference that can be viewed as the ‘little sister’ to the ADA’s huge Scientific Sessions held each summer.
This Postgraduate event hosts just a few hundred doctors, pharmacists, diabetes educators, dieticians and other healthcare…
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Have you ever sat in a hot tub for too long and noticed your blood sugar starting to take a dive? When the skin heats up, blood vessels expand and allow for greater circulation, magnifying the impact of insulin and pushing glucose levels down — a fortunate effect that Israeli-based company InsuLine wants to duplicate in their new insulin delivery aid products, called the InsuPatch and InsuPad.
InsuLine, which we first reported on following a…
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Last week, the New York Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation hosted their annual research briefing. Many chapters around the country host similar research briefings, and I was excited to find out that our local meeting would feature Dr. Sanjoy Dutta, Director of Glucose Control Therapies within the Treatment Therapies Program.
I want to note that although there’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the addition of treatment goals to JDRF’s mission, I whole-heatedly…
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