For people with diabetes, driving a car can be dangerous. According to a study of crash data from the United Kingdom, commercial truck drivers with diabetes had a three-...
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.
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Cutting through the information clutter in this issue.
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There are times when we would rather just leave our ungainly diabetes equipment (and our diabetes for that matter) at home. While the latter isn't practical, aDorn...
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Get smart - Intelligence from your doctor's recent diabetes meetings.
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Symlin Makes You Smile - 9 hours, 9 months and the "Post-Sex Buzz."
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Drug and device companies are increasingly using “direct-to-consumer” marketing to diabetic patients as well as to doctors and educators. As we’ve written, this can be a...
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Caps off to this intensive manager, Phil Southerland.
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Noted cardiologist, Dr. Nissen on Avandia.
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Jenna Scarsi, a diabetes educator from the Chicago area with type 1 diabetes, recently won the Bayer Dream Fund, an annual $100,000 fellowship to help people accomplish...
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Symlin: A Sleeper Drug Slowly Rises
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In previous issues, we’ve documented the arduous journey of Orexigen’s anti-obesity drug Contrave through the regulatory process. In December, an FDA Advisory Committee...
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New from J&J’s Animas/OneTouch is the OneTouch Ping Glucose Management System. This represents a positive step in pump convenience and (dare we say) “cool” factor...
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Have you been tested for Chronic Kidney Disease?
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Touchscreens have changed how hundreds of millions of people use cell phones and have enabled the rise of the tablet computer; now, a touchscreen blood glucose meter is...
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During this year’s Super Bowl, a commercial for the American Heart Association’s online risk calculator caught Americans in the act – of stuffing their faces with corn...
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Insulin: How to Restore a Tarnished Miracle