By
WilD on
December 8, 2012
Who doesn’t sometimes need help navigating life with diabetes? That’s why we offer Ask D’Mine, our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, he takes a look at the federal government’s involvement in approving test strip prescriptions, and — being an expert continuous glucose monitor user and book author on the topic — Wil gives some advice on what sometimes happens when a GCM transmitter stops working. Go…
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By
AmyT on
December 5, 2012
Wow! We’re excited to welcome not one, but three senior FDA officers as joint guest posters here at the ‘Mine today. All three of these individuals attended and participated in the recent 2012 DiabetesMine Innovation Summit, which we hosted at Stanford University on Nov. 16.
Dr. Alberto Gutierrez gave an opening talk titled “How Different Constituencies Can Work Together to Improve Technology Tools for Diabetes Care” (slides here); Stayce Beck participated in our “Data and…
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The other day, my dad told me that he’d recently hired a woman at his company who has LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults). She wears an insulin pump, and when he mentioned that I went off my pump this Spring and went back to taking multiple shots a day, the woman was apparently shocked and couldn’t figure out why I would “go backwards.”
It’s true that switching from a pump to multiple daily injections…
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By
AmyT on
December 3, 2012
Wanna vent a little about your diabetes and maybe win a prize? We’re gonna make this really easy…
For this year’s DiabetesMine Holiday Sweepstakes contest, all we ask is that you send us a very short email, describing in 50 words or less your big “aha!” diabetes moment of 2012:
What struck you hardest this year, in that you learned or observed something new?
Whether you’ve had diabetes for two months or 20 years, there…
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