Month: August 2016
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Treatment
Lipid-Lowering Therapy Saves Lives for People with Type 1
An observational study found this intervention helped head off a significant number of deaths from cardiovascular disease.
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Treatment
How DKA Happens and What to Do About it
Certified Diabetes Educator Gary Scheiner offers an overview of diabetic ketoacidosis.
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Treatment
10 Ways Blood Sugar Control Helps You Now
In an excerpt from “Think Like a Pancreas”, certified diabetes educator Gary Scheiner discusses the immediate benefits of glucose control.
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How Stress Hormones Raise Blood Sugar
In this excerpt from “Think Like a Pancreas”, certified diabetes educator Gary Scheiner describes why this happens and what to…
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En Español
Los tres oficiales de policía con diabetes tipo 1.
Una fuerza policía en Arizona emplea los tres.
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Treatment
Queasy Tales of Warm Insulin
Readers share stories of pharmacies improperly storing insulin.
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Treatment
What’s on Dexcom’s Radar?
5 takeaways from a recent earnings call with the leading CGM maker.
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Treatment
A Look into Medtronic’s Pump Game Plan
Medtronic’s reasoning for releasing the 630G, and why the company may be looking past it to the artificial pancreas.
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Research
I Was Hooked Up to Bigfoot’s Artificial Pancreas
A trial participant shares her experience, and her hope for the experimental system’s success.
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Treatment
Our Pharmacists Didn’t Store Insulin Properly
And their error landed my daughter in the hospital. Don’t let this happen to you.
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Living
Police Deny Man Insulin for Hours After Baton Rouge Shooting
A victim of mistaken identity, Demarcus Alexander ended up in the hospital in the aftermath of the shooting of six…
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Treatment
Come on, Medtronic, Now You’re Just Trolling Us
Why did Medtronic choose to come out with a non-predictive pump and put it in the shell of a predictive…
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En Español
Cuando Cada Día Puede Ser Una Emergencia Médica
Una mujer con Diabetes tipo 1 describe cómo un día normal se puede complicar cuando hay variaciones en los niveles…
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Research
Bigfoot Recruits for Its First Artificial Pancreas Trial
The company plans to submit the pump system for FDA approval in 2017.
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Treatment
Tandem t:slim Pump Approved for Children Ages 6 and Up
This might open up pump therapy for more young children.
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Living
Wait, Jay Cutler has Type 2 Diabetes Now?
Stephen A. Smith confuses Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes while trashing Cutler on ESPN.
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Living
Tommy Neal Enjoys Motivating Others as a Distance Runner with Type 1
A profile of an endurance athlete with Team Novo Nordisk.
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Research
Can Early Type 1 Diabetes Screening Prevent DKA?
German researchers test whether such screening leads to better health outcomes for children with Type 1 and their parents.
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