My Book and Surgery!

I guess you can call it irony … or a strange twist of fate?! I started writing my book after many recent years of hospital stays … and I learned how to manage.  So … my book is published and selling well … and I have to go into major surgery...

from my dear friend and diabetic sister, Dale

You are one of  kind. After the eulogy on Wednesday the mourners said I made them laugh and cry while describing my uncles life and his passing from a complication related to his diabetes. I just finished “The Savvy Diabetic” and you did the same thing but on a much...
My first book is PUBLISHED!

My first book is PUBLISHED!

Every bit of the process of publishing The Savvy Diabetic has been fascinating. It started with the concept.  I had been hospitalized, over the past 4 years, for a variety of problems, most not related to diabetes. But having T1 diabetes and being in the hospital can...

A Cautionary Tale

from Jeff: I was sitting in the bathroom when I noticed the top of my infusion set was starting to come off at the edge.  So I reached for the SkinTac to stick it on until it was time to change sets.  Now, the top of the bottle had become sticky and so I was turning...
A Comparison of Three Top Continuous Glucose Monitors

New Assante Snap Pump has Partners

Recently, Asante announced two important collaborations for downloading its new Snap insulin pump, which features 300 unit pre-filled insulin cartridges and a unique automatic priming feature (once the infusion set is connected to the reservoir, the pump primes...
Inhaled Insulin???

Inhaled Insulin???

Phase 3 Studies of Afrezza Ultra-fast Inhaled Insulin On May 31 and June 17, MannKind announced that it had completed its new phase 3 clinical studies of Afrezza for people with type 1 and 2 diabetes. As a reminder, Afrezza is an ultra-rapid-acting mealtime insulin...

ADA: Weak Support for Carb Counting in T1D

By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner Published June 23, 2013 Action Points This study was...

Replacing Clinicians With Algorithms

www.medscape.com Eric J. Topol, MD Jul 01, 2013 Hello. I’m Dr. Eric Topol, Director of the ScrippsTranslational Science Institute and [Editor-in-Chief of Medscape]. In this series, The Creative Destruction of Medicine, named for the book I wrote, I’m...

The BIONIC PANCREAS: a test drive …

Kelly Close, editor-in-chief of diatribe, writes, in the June issue of diatribe about her experiences on a 5-day trial on the bionic pancreas:   I’m now exactly eleven days out of the five-day Boston University/Massachusetts General Hospital bionic pancreas1...
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