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Adults with Type 1 Diabetes Need More Support To Achieve Goals

For years, qualitative studies looking into the inherent challenges of achieving diabetes management goals have focused on children and adolescents.…

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Adventures in T1D: How to Camp With Diabetes

Lifting the Shadow When you are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, it’s hard not to feel like a shadow has…

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A1c Tip: Increase Your Basal/Background Insulin By 1 Unit

Yes, just 1 unit. I bet you’re thinking: “But I have low blood sugars all the time! Increasing my background…

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Mental & Physical Health: Connecting the Dots

Intuitively, we all know that mood impacts how we take care of our physical health.  But have you ever stopped…

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Why Skipping Breakfast Spikes Your Blood Sugar

Ever skip breakfast thinking your blood sugar will just sit around the number you woke up at…only to find you’re…

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Adventures in T1D: How to Travel With Diabetes

I have always loved to travel, whether it’s a road trip or a few weeks in a foreign country, I…

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A1c Tip: Focus on One Part of the Day

Frustrated with an A1c that never seems to budge? Never seems to get down below your goal of 8.0 or…

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Adventures in T1D: How to Hike With Diabetes

When a trip to the grocery store means packing an extra bag just in case you get a low or…

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New Study Reveals Importance of CGMs in Diabetes Management

A recent study published in Diabetes Care compared the A1Cs and time-in-range of people who used finger pricks to test…

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Diabetic for 72 Years: How Community Helped Pat McAlister Beat the Odds

Being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the 40s meant you probably weren’t going to live a full life. In…

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Glucagon: People with Type 1 Diabetes Produce MORE of This Hormone that Raises Blood Sugar

Mother Nature is having a good laugh over this one. “Let’s create a condition where humans don’t produce any insulin…

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Research

New Biotechnology Promises to “Cure” Type 1 Diabetes Within 5 Years

A team of medical researchers and several Nobel Prize winners from Betalin Therapeutics in Jerusalem has created a “bio-artificial pancreas”…

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A1c Tip: Staying “In-Range” While You’re Sleeping

If you broke your 24-hour day into 3 sections, you’d have 8 hours of dawn/daylight, 8 hours of afternoon/evening, and…

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Is Medtronic’s Partnership With CDPHP Improving Diabetes Management?

Medtronic, one of the largest medical tech companies in the world, recently announced a partnership with Capital District Physicians’ Health…

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Back-to-School Basics for Diabetes Care

It’s no surprise that many of our usual habits fall to the wayside during the summer months. Vacations, beach days,…

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Anxiety, Anger, and Depression: The Overlooked Symptoms of Low Blood Sugar

Unexpected Anxiety I was sitting at my desk scrambling to get a project done before the end of the day.…

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TrialNet: Preventing and Delaying the Onset of Type 1 Diabetes

For several decades, TrialNet has been working on research to prevent or delay type 1 diabetes in relatives of people…

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Why your menstrual cycle raises your blood sugar

This 28-day cycle is an important part of your health but just like hormones related to stress, these hormones can…

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The Future of Healthcare: What’s Best for the Diabetic Community?

It’s no secret that healthcare is a major priority for many voters in the upcoming 2020 elections. And for the…

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Treatment

12 Hours Without Insulin Because of a Flaw in My Pump

It seems counter-intuitive that the more of a constant something is in your life, the easier it is to forget.…

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