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Dr. Fran Cogen

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

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posted 11/10/2009, comments (0)

What are Your Healthcare Team's Responsibilities?

In my last blog, I discussed your responsibilities in regard to working with your healthcare provider(s). What are the healthcare team's responsibilities in regard to the care of your diabetes? What are the necessary requirements to ensure that you are getting the best care for you? Knowledge - just as it is important that you seek out the... Read more Chevron

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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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Beth McNamara

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Son living with Type 1 diabetes

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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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posted 11/04/2009, comments (0)

Choosing The Best Vitamin Supplements - Let The Buyer Beware!

Are you confused as you stand before the vitamin counter trying to select the best brand of vitamin ? Doctor's prescription in hand for Vitamin D, I asked the pharmacist the brand name which would be used to fill the prescription and also took note of others on the shelf and headed home to do some serious research. This... Read more Chevron

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Kerri Sparling

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posted 11/03/2009, comments (9)

The Power of We

As I grew up with diabetes, my mother wasn't just "my mother." She was also my nurse, my dietician, and my exercise physiologist. What she had was the powerful combination of necessity and love, driven by the need to take the best care possible of her diabetic child. I don't have a clue what it takes to be the mother of a kid with... Read more Chevron

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