Monday, June 04, 2012

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Gretchen Becker

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Author, Humorist, wildlyfluctuating.blogspot.com

An Interesting Diabetes Book

I was killing time in the local hospital library recently when I saw a book on display called Diabetes: the Biography, by Robert Tattersall, and started reading it. Tattersall is "Special Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the University of Nottingham, and a leading authority on diabetes," according to the publisher, Oxford University... Read moreChevron
Ann Bartlett

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Wellness Center Owner, living with type 1

How Do I Find Low Cost Help for Diabetes Care with No Money and No Insurance?

Every month, I spend time combing the Q&A area of the site and I notice many questions looking for help to pay for medication, supplies, or guidance for assistance programs.  With the current state of unemployment and underemployment these questions are important and need we need to have a collective list of resources.  To make this... Read moreChevron
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Amylia Grace

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internationally published poet, writer, research assistant, diabetes advocate and educator. Dx'd with T1DM in '89.

Diabetes and Insulin Injection Lumps Explained

Calling All Diabetics:  Anyone have stubborn, pesky lumps at old injection sites they can't get rid of? Lumps that may reduce in size but still remain despite years of avoiding the injection site area(s)? I have three particularly stubborn lumps that I've had for over ten years. These lumps (fancy term: lipohypertrophy) are located on my left... Read moreChevron
Dr. Fran Cogen

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Director, Child/Adolescent Diabetes Program at Children's Nat'l

Type 1 Diabetes and Viruses

There has been an incredible amount of buzz recently in the diabetes community about the recent paper "Enterovirus infection and type 1 diabetes mellitus: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational molecular studies" published in The British Medical Journal: 2011;342:d35 doi:10.1136/bmj.d35. The authors: Yeung, Rawlinson and Craig,... Read moreChevron
Ann Bartlett

Ann Bartlett, Health Guide

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Wellness Center Owner, living with type 1

Living with Diabetes and Finding Empowerment

A few years ago, I was anything but an empowered patient!  In fact, I had been stripped of feeling secure about anything I knew regarding diabetes. I remember thinking how could I have let myself fall into such a state of confusion about my health, when I was an athlete, massage therapist, avid health nut and yet, I had almost lost the... Read moreChevron