Great American Smoke-Out: A Ninjabetic’s Story

Today is the 36th Annual Great American Smokeout, an awareness day from the American Cancer Association encouraging people to quit smoking or make a plan to quit. Although smoking is often associated with lung cancer, it’s also really bad news for…

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Raising the Bar on Glucose Meter Accuracy: The Industry Recommends… More details on the recent FDA Hearings on the accuracy of blood glucose monitoring devices: I was surprised by the report from patient advocate Ellen Ullman on Monday, noting that patient interests seem to be grossly underrepresented, and lots of......
At Least You Have Diabetes, and Not… We all need a little perspective sometimes.Mine came on the heels of a week of diabetes conference activity and advocacy talk, and it was a reality check that slapped me upside the head while screaming at me about how much bigger the world is tha......
Taking an Insulin Pump Hiatus? Hey, There’s an App for That! The other day, my dad told me that he'd recently hired a woman at his company who has LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults). She wears an insulin pump, and when he mentioned that I went off my pump this Spring and went back to taking multipl......
Viewpoints: should universities accept funding from industry? Direct links between universities and industry funders pose significant risks – but can they be managed? Shannon Kringen/Flickr, CC BY-SAThe University of Sydney has just announced it’s establishing a new research position in integrative medicine funded by a A$1.3 million donation from the Blackmores Institute. It says the Maurice Blackmore Chair in Integrative Medicine (a blending of evidence-based conventional and complementary medicine) will add to the university’s current research in the field. But does the move give rise to questions about whether research linked to industry will be compromised? In this Viewpoints, Paul Komesaroff argues working with industry doesn’t have...
Sunday Funnies: Jailhouse Blues Oh, woe is us... Now, that's a true jail sentence: incarceration until there's a cure! Thanks to our cartoonist Mike Durbin, who blogs at My Diabetic Heart and knows what it's like to sing this particular brand of blues....