Are you ready, PWDs? I hope you have your calendar marked for this Sunday, Nov. 14: World Diabetes Day 2010.
What to do to help the cause? There are plenty of campaigns to get behind this month, but here are my Top 4 suggestions:
* Find out what’s happening in your city/ state / town and be part of it this Sunday!
To do this, you can:
Browse the International Diabetes Federation’s calendar of 300+…
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Last week I offered to “open the kimono” by answering pretty much anything (within reason) that readers cared to ask. Looks like in response, I got a couple of “nuts & bolts” questions on day-to-day D-stuff, along with one call for my perspective on the Big Picture. That one will take some soul-searching, so let me start with the easy stuff:
Reader Q) As a fellow OmniPodder, how do you manage scar tissue? I rotate…
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Did you know there is now a National Infusion Site Awareness Week? It’s all part of a new awareness campaign brought to us by Roche Diabetes, coming up from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5. Publicity stunt by a pump manufacturer? Perhaps. But as anyone who pokes themselves regularly with needles full of insulin knows, infusion site management is an important and oft-overlooked challenge of life with diabetes.
In a recent press release, Roche shared that…
Diana Pihos is the Director of Communications for the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE). She was somewhat caught off-guard at last month’s Diabetes Social Media Summit, when our group barraged her with questions about the state of diabetes education in this country. I asked Diana to kindly offer us a recap of what she heard there, and what her organization intends to do about it.
A Guest Post by Diana Pihos of the AADE…
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The relative accuracy of blood glucose meters has of course been in the spotlight of late, since the FDA held a hearing to “crack down” on this issue last Fall. Funny, but I always assumed this had more to do with the technology inside the meter than the test strips themselves. Silly me.
One of this year’s buzzwords at the ADA Conference in Orlando last week was the “PQQ Enzyme” {glucose dehydrogenase (GDH)-pyrroloquino-linequinone (PQQ)} –…