What is your definition of an advocate?
Officially, dictionaries define an advocate as a person who speaks or writes in support or defense of a person, cause, etc. But an advocate is so much more than that. To begin with, an advocate is someone who identifies with a need, an issue. They can see a problem,...What Do Your A1c Test Results Really Mean?
Catherine Price | February 23, 2014 The hemoglobin A1c test, as we all know, is supposed to give a sense of your average blood glucose levels over the past three months. But here’s a question for you: have you ever tried to figure out what those average blood glucose...
Type 2 Diabetes Treatments May Benefit People with Type 1 Diabetes
Recent breakthroughs in type 2 diabetes treatments promise new treatment options for type 1 diabetics. Navigating this world of new, and apparently improved drugs, however, is anything but simple or straightforward. Less than 20 years ago, the only thing type 1 and...
Offending ‘Miss Manners’
My mother used to be terrified that, if I took an injection in public, the police would come to arrest me first and ask questions later. She wanted me to “do it” in private … but I just refused. February 21, 2014 Earlier this week advice columnist...Joanne Milo Interviewed by Gina at JDRF – TypeOneNation
This year is most exciting for me, as I’ve just published my first book called The Savvy Diabetic: A Survival Guide, which offers tips, tools, and techniques for diabetics to “survive” the medical system, travel, family life and simply coping. The idea for the book...
SUPPORT H.R. 3710: Medicare CGM Coverage Act, PLEASE!!!
Sue Berger wrote a blogpost today about what you can do to support H.R. 3710: Medicare CGM Coverage Act. Sue has been in contact with the Legal Assistant of Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH1] who is the sponsor of the bill and Sue outlines the steps that Shea-Porter’s...
Stroke Study Shows Oranges Vitamin C May Reduce Risk of Strokes
This past Friday, a small team of French researchers declared to have found a link, within their study results, for reducing the risk of strokes and the consumption of vitamin C foods and supplements, including the citrus bite of an orange. The study still is...RESEARCH from Science Daily: Turning to parasites as potential disease fighters
September 9, 2013 Source: Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Summary: Researchers have described exciting progress in harnessing the human immune system’s reaction to the presence of parasitic worms, as a way to lessen susceptibility to type 1 diabetes and...
