Thursday, February 16, 2012

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Dr. Bill Quick

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Physician who is living with diabetes.

Planning a Pregnancy with Diabetes (continued)

A recent newspaper story from the UK reported that a British study has concluded that the risk of birth defects increases four-fold if the pregnant mother has diabetes. The authors of the study found that "the rate of non-chromosomal major congenital anomaly in women with diabetes was 71.6 per 1,000 pregnancies..., a relative risk of 3.8... Read moreChevron
posted 02/13/2012, comments (0)|
Expert_badge Dr. Bill Quick

Dr. Bill Quick

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Physician who is living with diabetes.

Use of Metformin in Pregnancy

Metformin as well as every other prescription drug has a "label" (in the US, called a "United States package insert" or USPI, and in Europe called the "Summary of Product Characteristics" or SPC). The label spells out what governmental agencies authorize drug companies to say about the good and bad of their prescription drugs. Labels vary from... Read moreChevron
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Missy Foy

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Researcher in History of Medicine and in Healthcare Outcomes

Creating the Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes: A Brief History of Gestational Diabetes Part 2

Be sure to read Part 1 of this series here!   By the early twentieth-century, doctors knew that some women, at that time it seemed to be mostly white women, had sugar appear in their urine toward the end of their pregnancies.  They also knew that this condition went away when the mother gave birth.  In 1954, a doctor in Boston began... Read moreChevron
posted 04/27/2011, comments (0)|
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I'm a type 1 diabetic since age 11. I'm a diabetes advocate and health activist. I am a wife and mother of twin toddlers and I own a blog called http://thegirlsguidetodiabetes.com

New to the Community: Meet Sysy

My name is Sysy Morales.  I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 16 years ago at the age of 11.  My youngest sister, Ana was diagnosed at age 3 just a few months before me.  I prayed for her diabetes to go away even if it meant that I would take it on.  So you can imagine my delight when I began feeling the... Read moreChevron
posted 04/12/2011, comments (0)|
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Type 1 and Pregnancy: Our Stay in the NICU

After Mateo's wonderful entry into the world, our joy was interrupted when the doctor announced that his blood sugar was low and he'd have to go to the neonatal intensive care unit for treatment.    Low blood sugar is a common delivery complication for babies of diabetics and even for non-diabetic mothers if the baby is particularly... Read moreChevron

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