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…

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‘Violent Agreement’ on Need for Monitoring Meter & Strip Accuracy You may have heard about the BIG diabetes tech meeting this Monday, tackling the issue of uncertain glucose meter and test strip accuracy and what we might do to improve it.This day-long meeting held by the Diabetes Technology Society was the seco......
COH Welcomes Theresa Anselmo! Center for Oral Health is pleased to announce the addition of Theresa Anselmo, BSDH, RDH, MPH to its management team. She will oversee Center for Oral Health’s assessments statewide and the Oral Health Access Council (OHAC), California’s oral health coalition. Theresa was born and raised near Denver, Colorado, where in 1991 she graduated from the University of Colorado School of Dentistry with a Bachelor's of Science in Dental Hygiene. She spent 11 years in clinical practice, working in general dentistry and periodontal specialty practices. Theresa turned her attention to public health in 2002 when she joined the Colorado Department of...
Inhalable Insulin and Other News from EASD 2013 in Barcelona Last week marked the big European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) taking place this year in Barcelona, Spain. Like the annual American Diabetes Association's Scientific Sessions, this gathering draws thousands from the scientific, med......
dLife Diabetes Companion App Reviewed in Our Test Kitchen! There's no shortage of smartphone apps available for logging your diabetes data -- at least 1,100 in the iTunes store, according to industry observers. It's tough to know if any of them bring any real value to our lives.That's why we invite real P......
Gene loss creates eating disorder-related behaviors in mice Building on their discovery of a gene linked to eating disorders in humans, a team of researchers has now shown that loss of the gene in mice leads to several behavioral abnormalities that resemble behaviors seen in people with anorexia nervosa....