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Type 1 Diabetes News

Type 1 Diabetes is a chronic condition in which your body loses the ability to produce insulin, which is necessary for most cells to convert food into energy and regulate blood sugar levels. 

Curious to know what apps are available to you to help you manage a variety of health conditions? At the ADCES 2021 conference, experts discussed the best options out...
Navigating health insurance can be tricky. We’ve compiled a list of the most common terms you might come across to minimize any confusion in the terminology.
Julie Heverly describes one harrowing day when her glucose levels teetered between way too high and way too low and how she navigated this challenge.
diaTribe’s Community Manager Cherise Shockley led an online discussion about Time in Range with Shay Webb, a diabetes advocate, and Julia Blanchette, a diabetes care and...
The AP Workshop – A Meeting of the Great Minds Working to Close the Loop
Dr. Judith Fradkin, Director of the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases, NIDDK
The Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists 2021 conference covered the impacts of diabetes stigma, smart MDI therapies, insulin delivery by means other...
Social determinants of health describe the interaction between social, economic, and environmental factors and how they can influence a person’s health. Read below for...
Pumpers, be alerted! Last week, Animas launched the new Animas 2020 insulin pump, now the smallest traditional pump on the market. Some of the 2020's features include a...
Kelly on weight-loss revolutions, cutting-edge SMBG, and a one-of-a-kind diaTribe giveaway…
(S)he said what?!?
We wrote about the bus when we saw it at the ADA meeting in Chicago. We crossed paths with it again when we were at the EASD conference in Amsterdam and in Berlin during...
Oh the things we do.
International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD)
We last wrote about Type 1 University (T1U) in our test drive in diaTribe #29 – at the time, we were quite impressed after attending two of Gary Scheiner’s advanced...
A story of bigotry on a radio show.
Integrated Diabetes Services has put together a mealtime insulin-dosing calculator. This is a great tool to help patients learn how to “optimize” the amount of insulin...
Alisa’s ally, Alli
Last year, the FDA approved Medtronic’s Guardian REAL-Time System, which reads glucose levels in the interstitial fluid every five minutes. But the device was only...
Diabetes devices with cell phone technology, data analytics, and a touchscreen? diaTribe’s own Adam Brown test drives the newest blood glucose meters...

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