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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Sunscreen: check. Water bottle: check. Beach ball: check. Insulin cooler….? Yep. For those of us who use insulin, summer heat creates an extra level of complexity and worry.
The real question we all ask ourselves in the heat of the summer is whether our fun-in-the-sun will cook our insulin and leave us having-not-so-much-fun in an air conditioned ICU unit?
There’s a whole industry of solutions dedicated to helping us keep our insulin cool, ranging from…
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Happy Saturday! You may experience a little deja vu on this one, as it’s a topic we addressed back in December 2011… about dealing with weight struggles.
Got the dieting blues on these Weighty Matters? We hear you. Please take a gander at this week’s edition of Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
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Tim from Washington,…
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