New Endocrinology Foundation to Take on Fundraising and Advocacy

Chances are as this week winds down, your endocrinologist is out of the office today and tomorrow. He or she may very well be at the big annual clinical endo conference happening in Tennessee this Wednesday through Sunday, bringing in thousands of…

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Ask D’Mine: How to Bolus for Bulimia This edition of our weekly diabetes advice column Ask D'Mine is pretty heavy duty. Our columnist Wil Dubois (himself a longtime type 1 who works as a community diabetes educator) is faced with a real medical emergency in the form of an eating dis......
Patient Voices Winner Christel Aprigliano: Our D-Community’s (Un)Advocate Next up in our series of interviews with the winners of our 2014 DiabetesMine Patient Voices Scholarship Contest is returning advocate Christel Aprigliano, who was with us for the 2013 event. You may know of Christel's outstanding work establishi......
From Insulin Pumps to Glucose Gels – New Reviews in the Test Kitchen! Have you ever heard about a diabetes product and wondered what kind of experience other PWDs (people with diabetes) have had with it? Now it's easy to find out! Just browse through our new DiabetesMine Test Kitchen - a collection of video product ......
Patient Voices Contest Winner Advocates for People with ‘the Suga’ Congrats again to the winners of our 2014 DiabetesMine Patient Voices Scholarship Contest, announced earlier this summer! Over the next weeks, we'll be featuring an interview with each of them -- all leading up to the 2014 DiabetesMine Innovation ......
Bitewing Radiographs – what are they and why do I need them? What are bitewings? Bitewing radiographs are a series of two or four radiographs taken to provide diagnostic information about posterior (back) teeth. When do I need bitewings? The standard of care is to take bitewing radiographs a minimum of one time per calendar year. A full mouth series, which includes bitewings and other radiographs, is taken a minimum of one time every 5 years. Why do I need bitewings? Bitewings provide diagnostic information about your teeth that cannot be obtained in any other manner. What happens if I do not get bitewings? Tooth decay between your teeth may go...