Month: June 2017
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Living
Seeking Deportation Because of Poor Diabetes Management in Detention
Brenda Menjivar Guardado is dropping her request for asylum because she worries for her health while in detention.
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Living
Is an Asylum-Seeker’s Diabetes Being Dangerously Mismanaged?
Two groups allege that Brenda Menjivar Guardado has endured extremely high glucose levels since being in ICE custody.
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Living
The Juicy Bits of the CBO Report for People with Diabetes
We’ve highlighted three passages from the report, which appraises the Senate bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care…
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Treatment
U.S. News Names Top 5 Pediatric Diabetes Programs in the U.S.
The organization releases its 2017-2018 rankings for children’s hospitals.
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Living
Orange is the New Black’s Diabetes Portrayal is Almost Criminal
A guard is separated from his insulin pen, but he’s fine once he has a meal. Wait, what?
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Living
What JDRF, ADA, DPAC Say About the Senate Health Bill
You can read their statements, as well as an interview of the president of the American Medical Association about the…
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Living
How the Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill Would Impact People with Diabetes
Insurers may be allowed to not cover essential health benefits like drug costs, according to initial reports.
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Treatment
How Insulin Became So Expensive – A History
At the ADA Scientific Sessions, an endocrinologist chronicles how incremental improvements have curtailed pricing competition.
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Research
How Those Who Love You View Hypoglycemia
Researchers find loved ones want to help adults with Type 1 avoid lows, but don’t always know how.
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Living
Why Does Weightlifting Make My Glucose Levels Skyrocket?
A man with Type 1 finds more questions than answers.
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Living
Almost No One Knows What’s in the Senate’s AHCA Bill
If it’s like the House’s version of the AHCA, it could mean drastic changes in health care coverage for people…
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Research
Diabetes-Related Distress Leads to Higher A1C Scores
And vice versa. Researchers find the two create an unhealthy cycle which requires intervention for people with Type 1 diabetes.
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Treatment
The Abbott Freestyle Libre is Not a CGM
OPINION - A Libre user says it’s a poor substitute for a CGM.
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Research
Five Quick-Takes from the ADA 77th Scientific Sessions
A1C is out, add-on drug therapies are in, and hybrid closed-loop pumps are the now and the near future.
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Treatment
Beta Cells vs. Closed-Loop Pumps – Which is Better?
Advocates argue for both treatments at the ADA 77th Scientific Sessions.
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Treatment
Medtronic Launches 670G – First Hybrid, Closed-Loop System
At times dubbed an artificial pancreas, the 670G represents a leap forward in automated insulin delivery.
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Living
Four Ways to Keep Loved Ones from Becoming the Diabetes Police
Good advice from “Bright Spots & Landmines,” a new diabetes guide from diaTribe’s Adam Brown
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Research
Studying People with Type 1 Before They’re Born
Researchers track pregnant women to determine how environmental factors and genetics influence the risk of children developing Type 1 diabetes.
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Treatment
Children Get Help for Mom with Type 1 During Low
The two children are credited with doing everything right to get their mother the help she needed.
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Living
Nurse Pleads Guilty to Murdering Eight with Insulin
The murders in two long-term care facilities took place over seven years.
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