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Jennifer Smith holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Nutrition and Biology from the University of Wisconsin. She is a registered and licensed dietitian, certified diabetes educator, and certified trainer on most makes/models of insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring systems. She has lived with Type 1 diabetes since she was a child,and thus has first-hand knowledge of the day-to-day events that affect diabetes management.
Treatment

Why Children with Type 1 Might Lie About Blood Sugar Readings

A certified diabetes educator provides suggestions for what to do about it.

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Living

Donald Trump and Diabetes Policy: What We Know Right Now

Less than a week after the election, already his positions on health care and health insurance are changing.

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Living

Five Little-Known Facts About Dr. Frederick Banting

The inventor of insulin had many passions beyond diabetes care.

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Living

Would Diabetes be Covered if Obamacare is Repealed?

We walk you through the scenarios.

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Living

Five Ways to Kill a Conversation About Your Type 1 Diabetes

Use these tactics at your next big family gathering.

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Living

When Pharmacists Attack!

The Type 1 diabetes community share stories of when they’ve had to defend themselves against medical nosiness.

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Treatment

Sanders, Cummings Ask Justice Department to Investigate Insulin Prices

The Department of Justice and the FTC are asked to investigate whether Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi colluded to raise…

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Research

Novo Nordisk Kills Off Oral Insulin Project

And, without irony, It cites lower prices for injectable insulin as one of the reasons why.

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Living

We Left Our Son’s Insulin at the Last Hotel

A mother pleads with a pharmacist for an emergency refill.

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Living

Missing Teen with Diabetes Found Two States Away

A scary case-study for making a plan for the unexpected with teens with Type 1.

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Living

Mandy Marquardt – An Elite Cyclist with Type 1 Diabetes

Her doctor told her she could no longer compete as a cyclist; she’s now training for the Olympics.

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Research

Dual-Hormone ILet Poised to Begin FDA Testing in 2017

If successful, the system would be the first to use both glucagon and insulin to make it to market.

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Research

Researchers Find a New Way to Detect Kidney Damage in Kids with Type 1

They uncover two proteins that would detect nephropathy before a urine test would detect damage.

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En Español

Los pros y los contras de la terapia con bomba de insulina.

Un educador de diabetes certificado enumera todo lo que puede ir mal y todo lo que puede ir a bien…

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En Español

Por qué yo llamo el 670G un páncreas artificial

Un argumento que es lo suficientemente diferente y automatizado lo suficiente como para justificar el título.

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Treatment

Here’s What You Used to Treat Type 1 Diabetes in the 60’s and 70’s

A woman with Type 1 describes the bizarre-sounding gear she used as a child.

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Living

My First Year with Type 1 Diabetes

A later-in-life diagnosis causes one man to change everything.

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Research

How to (Possibly) Make Oral Insulin Possible

Researchers devise smaller particles that could deliver medication in a better way.

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Treatment

UK Petition Asks Government to Pay for Costs of CGMs

The petition has been led by a member of Parliament who has Type 1 diabetes.

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En Español

¿Por qué Las Personas con Diabetes Tipo 1 Tienen Problemas Digestivos?

Investigadores descubren una posible causa de múltiples problemas digestivos en personas con diabetes.

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