The Other Kids with Diabetes

We all know the stereotype of someone newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes: an overweight adult, lethargic and unhealthy, right? Wrong. Just as society is still unclear on who can get type 1 diabetes (adults too!), type 2 diabetes is rising at ala…

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New FastClix: Now Easier on Your Brain, While Still Sparing Your Fingers Roche Diabetes has just released the next generation of their popular Multiclix Gatling-gun-style lancing device. The new version, called FastClix (yes, with a capital C versus the older lancer, with lowercase c), features one-click lancing, a who......
Ask D’Mine: Tattoo Risks, and Those Crazy Canadians Happy Saturday! Welcome back to Ask D'Mine, our weekly advice column hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil offers thoughts on the risks people with diabetes (PWD) face when getting ink, and tho......
Patients for a Moment (PFAM) January 2013 Edition: Celebrating Renewals Welcome to the PATIENTS FOR A MOMENT (PFAM) patient-centered blog carnival, founded in part by Leslie of Getting Closer to Myself. We are delighted to be hosting this month, with the New Year's-inspired theme of Renewals.We put out a call for pati......
Chasing the OmniPod: Patch Me If You Can Last week, I spent a little bit of time at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, a nearly-thirty-year-old annual gathering that's become "the health care industry's premier financial event, giving more than 330 companies a chance to make formal pit......
Life of Control: An Endo’s Attempt at Patient Stories Most of the time when a new book from an endocrinologist is published, it's in a very prescriptive tone, as in "This is what you should do to achieve optimal disease management." Very rarely are they written with the intention of showing the emoti......