JDRF reported today that Congress has included a $150 million extension of the Special Diabetes Program (SDP) as part of a year-end package of legislation to avert the “fiscal cliff.”
When it comes to Type 2 diabetes, for example, some doctors may initially prescribe an older drug rather than metformin if diet and lifestyle changes fail to adequately control blood glucose levels.
New Year’s Eve is right around the corner, which means it’s almost time to make those resolutions. And what better a time to get off to a fresh start with some of your diabetes management routines than at the dawn of a new year?
Who doesn’t like an inspiring story at this time of year? Today’s uplifting news comes out of New Zealand, the place that Winsome Johnston, the world’s longest living person with Type 1 diabetes, calls home.
If you have a phone and a chronic disease, chances are there’s an app for what ails you. Not sure what to download? Consider these popular apps, which are free, unless noted.
What’s new and what’s on one device user’s wish list for 2013 by Bernard Farrell, PWD type 1.
We were crossing our fingers for a cure being discovered or the FDA approving the best-ever fantasy diabetes device. What did really happen?
Adults diagnosed with diabetes are at significantly increased risk for fracture-related hospitalization, according to results from an analysis of data from a large, community-based study.
There are many questions that remain unanswered with regards to diabetes, but one question which is asked time and time again is, why don’t all obese people develop diabetes if there is such a strong link between the two conditions?
Everybody seems to have their own advice on how to control your food intake during the holidays. Which of these tips do you find to be the most useful?
As the winter holidays approach, with their cold weather and abundant food temptations, Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group is offering 10 simple tips people with diabetes and prediabetes should follow to help stay healthy.
New guidelines may reduce the number of people who need to take blood pressure medications, and they may help more people get insurance coverage for testing their blood sugar levels.
Dr. Paul Rosman and David Edelman Together explore why so many people with diabetes try mightily yet fail to successfully manage their diabetes.
Living with diabetes is an exercise in “forced practices” — daily routines and practices that we wouldn’t choose, but that we have been given by our condition. The art of failure is one of those practices.
What is are the most critical precautions when travelling with diabetes?
Are your legs feeling numb and tired? Is it poor circulation or something else?
You can manage your diabetes better with a healthy lifestyle approach. If you’ve gotten into some bad habits, it’s time to start your own personal reform movement.
It’s not enough to lose weight for diabetes management and prevention and better health — you really need to know how to keep it off after you lose it.
That day is coming. The day we are supposed to decide what we’ll “lose weight” or “finally start exercising” or “really commit to exercising for more than just a few weeks” or “finally quit smoking”.
This insulin pump has a touch screen simplifies things dramatically, and displays more critical information at a glance.