Around the Diabetes Blogosphere — March 2012 Edition

We’re already a quarter way through 2012! Hopefully that means Spring will be arriving any day now… In the meantime, let’s take a look at some of our favorite blog posts from the last month, in no particular order:Even after years of living with…

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Ask D’Mine: On STDs, and Catching Diabetes from Sex? Got questions about life with diabetes? So do we! That's why we offer our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D'Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.This week, Wil is taking on some good ol' fashioned ......
Top 10 Cures for Diabetes If you listen to the Internet, diabetes has been cured! In fact, there are many cure options to choose from. Our Top 10 faves include: 1. Mice Cures Our furry little friends seem to be getting cured every week. In this most recent example, they w......
10 Reasons Why The Actos Pre-Diabetes Study is Dumb A week ago, the media was all abuzz about a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that the oral drug Actos can prevent diabetes. At first we at the 'Mine didn't pay much attention, because of course we're more concerne......
July 2012 DSMA: Learning from the DOC Contrary to some recent criticisms, we don't believe the Diabetes Online Community (DOC) is a closed club. Actually, it's a very open and welcoming place where anyone struggling with diabetes can find support and information. We each might be loo......
Skills, Not Pills to Treat Binge Eating Disorder You may have already seen the ads for Vyvanse, the new FDA-approved drug for the treatment of binge eating disorder. Vyvanse was originally marketed for the treatment of ADHD, but Shire Pharmaceuticals, the drug’s manufacturer, is now promoting it as “an effective option to help curb episodes of binge eating.” Binge eating disorder (BED) is the most widespread of all eating disorders and affects 1{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} to 5{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} of Americans. For years it was classified as a medical condition. But in 2013 the authors of DSM-V saw the light and classified BED as an eating disorder. Psychological variables such as low...