Is it Time to Rename Type 1 Diabetes?
Published on February 19th, 2014 | by Claresa Levetan MD, FACE In 1997, the World Health Organization, the American Diabetes Association and other groups universally adopted new nomenclature for diabetes. Diabetes was no longer to be named by whether or not patients...How to make insulin-producing cells from gut cells
Posted on March 10, 2014 by Stone Hearth News, PHILADELPHIA Destruction of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas is at the heart of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. “We are looking for ways to make new beta cells for these patients to one day replace daily insulin...
Research Corner: Ending the A1C Blame Game
Published on December 26th, 2013 | by Claresa Levetan MD, FACE When glucose sensors first became available in clinical trials some 2 decades ago, I decided to wear a sensor to compare my glucose levels as a non-diabetic individual with glucose levels of my patients. I...
DiabetesMine from AmyT: Tweaking My Basals, with Protein Tips
By AmyT on February 20, 2014 I’ve started working with Gary Scheiner’s Integrated Diabetes Services (diabetes education) practice again, in the hopes of rescuing what has been a pretty poor autumn/winter in Blood Sugar Land for me. (Don’t ever think that just because...
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