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FDA warning about certain glucose testing strips

The FDA recently issued an alert for people with diabetes and their caregivers, Advice for Patients: Serious Errors with Certain Blood Glucose Monitoring Test Strips.The warning applies to only certain people, and only to certain BG strips, those which use a technology called GDH-PQQ (glucose dehydrogenase pyrroloquinoline quinone). Such strips... Read moreChevron

Nine Drugs

I recently received an e-mail alerting me to a webpage discussing "9 Common Drugs That Every Diabetic Should Avoid Mixing With Their Meds." It was such an intriguing title that I Googled the phrase, and found that several websites had exactly the same list!   I totally disagree with the author's premise that people with diabetes (PWD)... Read moreChevron

Types of Diabetes: are there more than two?

I recently received an e-mail inquiring about "type 3 diabetes." The writer stated "It's very confusing! People are now mistaking type 1.5 and type 3, even I had a hard time gleaning whether type 3 is type 1.5 and Alzheimer's linked, is it type 1 and type 2 with a twist? "   Yes, it's confusing. As Wikipedia points out, "Various... Read moreChevron

Nordic Walking

I recently read an article in Sweet, a British diabetes magazine, about an exercise I had never previously heard of: Nordic walking. Seems like many Brits have never heard of it, either, as the magazine describes it as "now it's making its way to the UK" (and maybe someday to the US!). The authors say the sport of Nordic walking began in Finland,... Read moreChevron

Glucose control cuts T1DM complications for 30 years

A recent study answers the question for once and for all: long-term control of hyperglycemia over 30 years dramatically cuts the rate of complications in people with type 1 diabetes (T1DM).   The study is from the researchers who did the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) back in the 1980's and early 1990's. In that study,... Read moreChevron

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