Around the Diabetes Blogosphere — February Edition
Updated: 2012-02-29 14:00:08
Hola, DOC Friends. Happy Leap Year Day! The month of February is always short but sweet, no?
Please enjoy our monthly carnival of some of the best reading around the diabetes blogosphere:
No matter how many times you do something,…
Can’t get insurance coverage because of a pre-existing medical condition… like say, diabetes? A new temporary federal program allows PWDs and others to buy individual health insurance, at least for the next few years.
By D’Mine Columnist / Correspondent…
The famous and controversial diabetes cure researcher Dr. Denise Faustman has just published exciting new research results showing evidence that “insulin production may persist for decades after the onset of type 1 diabetes” and “beta cell functioning also appears to…
It’s sometimes surprising to learn who’s your side, living with diabetes…
Please give a warm welcome to this week’s guest cartoonist, Mike Durbin, who’s been living with type 2 diabetes himself for three years. If you’d like to submit…
If it isn’t one thing with diabetes, it’s another — from trying to figure out what the heck’s going on overnight, to the understandable paranoia that sometimes sets in. But we at the ‘Mine are here to support you! We’ve…
Note to self: Never say never, and never brush aside any tool that might possibly be able to help you smooth your wild glucose excursion rides.
Not long ago, I declared my happiness being untethered from my CGM. But as…
Just a few weeks after we published our last update on flying with diabetes, the Transport Security Administration (TSA) made a big announcement in response to all the hullaballoo about its agents mistakenly subjecting travelers with health conditions to invasive…
We’re traveling around the world again for our ongoing series about Global Diabetes — what’s it like to live with this illness in parts unknown? Today we are joined by Senthil Nathan, blogging about diabetes from Chennai, India, a country…
Wow, LifeScan’s OneTouch Verio IQ meter just barely hit market in the U.S., and we got word today that all meters across the country and across Canada are being “voluntarily removed and replaced” by the company, due to an error…
I have to provide a brief disclosure before writing this book review: I am a huge fan of Gary Scheiner, especially after he managed to help me keep an A1c of 7.0% throughout my junior and senior years of college.…