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This week, a bit about drug-food interactions, and the crazy things that insulin does in your body sometimes:
Ned from Utah, type 2, writes: Recently a friend showed…
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Last month, we launched a new series on diabetes complications. The idea is definitely not to use scare tactics to convince you to take better care of yourself, but rather to embrace the notion that “knowledge is power” and that if you are diagnosed with a complication, life goes on…
(Hey, we’re facing our own worst fears here, too)
It just so happens that February is National Heart Month (go figure), so this month we’re…
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By
AmyT on
October 13, 2009
I’m off to Dallas today to take part in a special patient advisory council* for the American Heart Association, which is desperately trying to reach out to people with diabetes about heart health.
They’ve created a program called Heart of Diabetes (sponsored by Takeda Pharmaceuticals) and are busy gathering patient stories in video format. Now they’re trying to figure out how to further get the word out, to people with Type 2 diabetes in particular,…
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AmyT on
March 11, 2009
Funny how issues can swirl right past you, until they become personal. Then suddenly you awake to find yourself at the center of the storm! What I’m getting at here is that a few weeks ago, my endo decided I should start taking a statin drug. And all of a sudden, all the hullaballoo over these widely-touted cholesterol-lowering pills hit home.
Research suggests that statins are very effective in reducing heart risk, especially for people…
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