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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why Does Weightlifting Make My Glucose Levels Skyrocket?

A man with Type 1 finds more questions than answers.

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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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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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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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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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Beta Cells vs. Closed-Loop Pumps – Which is Better?

Advocates argue for both treatments at the ADA 77th Scientific Sessions.

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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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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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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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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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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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