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Dr. Bill Quick

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Physician and Medical Director of DiabetesMonitor.com

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posted 11/07/2009, comments (0)

Once-weekly drug therapy for diabetes

With the well-known fact that blood glucose levels (BGL) fluctuate moment-to-moment, and certainly day-by-day, it might be a bit surprising to hear that a diabetes medication could be developed that only needs once-weekly administration. But it's true -- Amylin and Eli Lilly have developed a once-weekly formulation of Byetta (exenatide), their... Read more Chevron

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Robert Albee

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Never-ever see me as a disease; instead a kind of dervish!

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posted 11/06/2009, comments (2)

Creating a Community-Based Diabetes Self-Management Program

I am involved in creating a community-based diabetes self-manage- ment program operated by diabetics for diabetics. I am asking for your ideas on what to include in a beginning six-hour kickoff to be followed up by a weekly 60-90 minute meeting throughout the year. This is a format similar to a popular weight reduction program and numerous... Read more Chevron

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Gretchen Becker

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posted 11/06/2009, comments (2)

Newly Diagnosed: What Can I Eat?

You've recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and you don't know what you can eat. One expert says you need to cut back on fat, but you can eat a lot of carbohydrate (starches and sugars). Another says you need to cut back on carbohydrate, and fat doesn't matter. A third says the important thing is the glycemic index. Your head is... Read more Chevron

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Beth McNamara

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posted 11/05/2009, comments (5)

Butting Heads With Your Type 1 Teenager

With my son just one month short of turning fourteen, I feel like I now have entered a phase of on-going battles. Our relationship is solid enough, yet it is not filled with tranquility but instead is prone to raging storms followed by short interludes of calm. My husband and I sense that we are just beginning to make our way down the long road of... Read more Chevron

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David Mendosa

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Medical Journalist Living with Diabetes and Author of Fitness and Photography for Fun, www.mendosa.com/fitnessblog

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posted 11/04/2009, comments (15)

Nothing to Eat

If you listen to all the so-called experts on nutrition, we can't eat anything. But here's the good news. We can at least drink one thing, water. Nobody argues against water itself, although some of the experts tell us that it has to be filtered and we shouldn't buy bottled water because it's not well tested and all those bottles are bad for the... Read more Chevron

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