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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. 

Looking through this special issue on the American Diabetes Association meeting this year, I can’t help but feel two things – pride and trepidation.
The Changing Diabetes Bus, sponsored by Novo Nordisk, was set up on Pier 39 during the ADA meeting in June in San Francisco. It arrived from a tour in India and is next...
All diabetes is personal.
Drumroll, please.
Not all A1Cs are created equal.
On July 29, the JDRF formally launched its innovative new online Clinical Trials Connection service. This service was launched to help patients with type 1 diabetes and...
Insulins Unplugged
You want a resolution?
Realizing we didn't have any insight into talking meters, we picked up a Prodigy Autocode meter from the booth during the American Association of Diabetes Educators (...
Sonia Sotomayor is the first Supreme Court Justice nominee with type 1 diabetes. Jim Hirsch explains how he got involved in the White House's efforts to handle the...
AADE Diabetes Educator of the Year Mary Sullivan on teaching diabetes self-care when we need it most – in the inpatient setting.
The staff here at diaTribe has had many great things to say about the OmniPod the disposable “patch pump” from Insulet. Our editor-in-chief, Kelly Close, has been a...
Let your voice be heard
Home A1c testing kits
Another ‘next’ that we’re watching is the GlucaPen from Enject. Everybody who takes insulin faces the risk of severe hypoglycemia (a medical emergency), and it’s vital...
Diabetic neuropathy affects the feet and is a common complication of poorly controlled diabetes. The drug works by inhibiting the action of connective tissue growth...
Kerri Morrone Sparling looks at new paths for 2010.
Beyond the Basals - Part II
A blogger’s journey into the Twitter-verse.
If you’ve ever left your diabetes doctor/educator’s office thinking, “That’s an hour of my life I’d like to have back,” this article is for you.

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