November is Diabetes Awareness month. Michigan State University Extension offers an interesting look into how “diabetes” got its name. Diabetes has been around for awhile Diabetes has been around for centuries. In fact, cases of diabetes can be traced as...
Thanks for our wonderful support group, GNO, and Sharon Roberson, here is a great guide for converting back to insulin shots from being on an insulin pump. This comes from a British site called Salford Diabetes Care (www.salforddiabetescare.co.uk) Why would you...
NO, this is not a political forum … but news about and for diabetics in medicine, Medicare, and a quick 2016 Voters’ Guide for Diabetics! Bernie Sanders is Going After Insulin Makers over Price Hikes, Tuesday, November 1, 2016! YEAH, Bernie! He posted several...
Parents on Trial for Refusing to Give Insulin to a Child with Type 1 Diabetes is the headline in InsulinNation’s piece by Craig Idlebrook, 23 September 2016 … and it caught my attention. Emil and Rodica Radita are on trial in Calgary for the first-degree...
I met Bill Carlson many years ago at one of the early IDAA conferences (IDAA: International Diabetes Athletes Association, started by Paula Harper in Arizona in the 1990’s). I was in awe and I was surrounded by other amazing super athletes. I, of course, was...
How Do I Advocate for Myself was written and posted by Kathleen Hoffman on Medivizor on 27 September 2016 and contains some wonderful suggestions and insights. Kathleen Thompson, MD is a physician specializing in pharmaceutical drug research in the UK. A breast...