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Treatment
New Flu Treatment for People with Diabetes
For the average person, the flu might be no big deal — but for people with type 1 and type…
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Living
Adventures in T1D: Summiting Your Fears
When I was in college, a coworker and I began planning for the ultimate hike. We wanted to climb Longs…
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Living
Big Picture Priority — Reduce your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
As a diabetic, you make a thousand tiny decisions every day in the name of maintaining healthy, stable blood sugars.…
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Treatment
Closed-Loop System Shows Promise for Improving Diabetes Outcomes
A new study looking at the efficacy of closed-loop pump systems was recently published in The New England Journal of…
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Living
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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Living
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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Treatment
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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Living
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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Living
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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Living
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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Treatment
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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Living
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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Treatment
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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My Story
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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Treatment
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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Living
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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Treatment
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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Living
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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Living
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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