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Diabetes Awareness Month: Kicking off with type 1 innovations From Petri Dish To Human Trial

All People Who Are Interested In "Type 1 diabetes"

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Dr. Bill Quick

Dr. Bill Quick

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Physician and Medical Director of DiabetesMonitor.com
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 moreChevron
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Beth McNamara

Beth McNamara

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Son living with Type 1 diabetes
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 moreChevron
verdungal
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 moreChevron
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Kerri Sparling

Kerri Sparling

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I believe in the power of community.
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 moreChevron
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Dr. Fran Cogen

Dr. Fran Cogen

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Director, Child/Adolescent Diabetes Program at Children's Nat'l
posted 11/03/2009, comments (3)

Diabetes Care: Responsibilities for Patient and Healthcare Provider

I routinely review the comments associated with my blogs as well as those of my fellow bloggers on this site. I have noted a persistent theme in regard to the lack of satisfaction with diabetes healthcare providers and the pharmaceutical industry. Many of the comments are truly appropriate given the current state of health care and insurance... Read moreChevron
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