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DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog
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Paula Deen (Again), and Instant Mashed Potatoes with TV Dinners

Need help navigating life with diabetes? Ask D’Mine! That would be our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil is offering so...

13 h ago

Dream Tools for Diabetes: Speak Up Now & Win!!

Got opinions about current diabetes devices & treatments and how they could be improved? Of course you do! There are just twelve days left to enter our epic Diabetes Patient Voices Contest — a on...

1 day ago 1 person likes this

From AACE: A Video Chat with Two Type 1 Endos

A patient’s relationship with their endocrinologist is… well, complicated. On one hand, endos spend years in school, learning all the intricate biomechanisms that make the body work, but ...

1 day ago

Around the Diabetes Blogosphere — May Edition

We’re now at the end of the fifth month of 2012, which is simply amazing — how quickly this year is going by! With the summer months arriving soon and bringing a lot of diabetes conference activity, ...

2 days ago

The 411 on Diabetes and… Hearing Loss?

When I started writing our 411 series on diabetes complications, I expected that it would take me roughly a year to cover them all. Off the top of my head, I knew the Big Four: blindness, kidney fail...

2 days ago

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...

3 days ago

Kids with Diabetes Can Be Depressed, Too

We’re in the final days of May — National Mental Health Awareness Month — and earlier this month, I shared my own personal struggles in dealing with depression and diabetes. But that was throug...

4 days ago 1 person likes this

Not Your Granddaddy’s VA — Changing Diabetes Care for Veterans

Happy Memorial Day Monday. We’re still in a military mindset here at the ‘Mine, with a look today at what’s happening with diabetes benefits for the men and women who’ve serve...

5 days ago

Sunday Funnies: Summer Cookin’

  Everything but the kitchen sink…?   We love the mind of illustrator Jerry King, who happens to be one of the most published and prolific cartoonists in America, creating over 200 ca...

6 days ago

Ask D’Mine: Treating a Diabetic “Junkie,” and Considering “Insulinotropic” Foods

Need help navigating life with diabetes? Ask D’Mine! That would be our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil takes on the i...

26 may 12

A Mixed Military Bag for People with Diabetes

As we approach Memorial Day and recognize those serving our country, we thought it would be worthwhile to look at the ease with which people with diabetes are able to serve in the military, and how t...

25 may 12 1 person likes this

Type 1 Diabetes: First Impressions Count!

OK, so this is a promo video. It introduces yet another new online community for people with type 1 diabetes, this one founded by a team led by Jonny White out of Canada, that’s also working on...

24 may 12 1 person likes this

Lilly (Finally) Engages the Diabetes Patient Community

When I heard that Lilly Diabetes was holding its first-ever Diabetes Blogger Summit, my initial thought was: “It’s about flippin’ time.” I’m an active patient advocate and blogger who’s l...

24 may 12

May DSMA: Wishing Upon a Health Plan…

The topic for this month’s Diabetes Social Media Advocacy blog carnival gives us a chance to tell our insurance companies what we’d like them to pay for, in an ideal world of diabetes cov...

23 may 12

Diabetes Sisters Gather in North Carolina

Since May of 2010, the amazing Diabetes Sisters group founded by Brandy Barnes has held an annual Weekend for Women conference, that I understand is a life-changing experience. Sadly for me, I’...

23 may 12

Bret Michaels Gets His Cure On — with JDRF!

We know him as the lead singer for legendary rock band Poison who captured international attention a couple of years ago with his Celebrity Apprentice win. He’s also been the new face of the Am...

22 may 12

Inside the Diabetes “Book of Better”

When you think about reading a book about diabetes, fun is not necessarily a term that comes to mind. Informative, well-written and engaging are all terms that might come to mind, but not necessarily...

21 may 12

D-Blog Week: My Diabetes Hero

On our final day of Diabetes Blog Week 2012 (boo, so sad!), we are ending the week on a high note by blogging about our “Diabetes Hero.” As Karen suggests: “It can be anyone you’d like to recognize o...

20 may 12

Sunday Funnies: Do the Math

Funny how with diabetes, people often look at you like you’re either brilliant, or completely nuts…   Thanks to Terry Keelan, our guest cartoonist this month. Terry is a type 1 PWD l...

20 may 12

D-Blog Week: Saturday Snapshots

Now back for a third year, this next-to-last Diabetes Blog Week prompt gives our community a chance to show everyone what life with diabetes really looks like. We’re giving a nod to the Diabete...

19 may 12

Ask D’Mine: Lowering Sugars Without Insulin + Glycemic Index Secrets Revealed!

Happy Saturday! With the weekend comes your chance to Ask D’Mine! — through our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil respo...

19 may 12 1 person likes this

D-Blog Week: “What They Should Know”

The Diabetes Blog Week prompt today asks us to ponder the question “What They Should Know,” i.e. what we in the Diabetes Community would tell someone who doesn’t have diabetes, give...

18 may 12

From JDRF Detroit: Lessons on Chocolate Milk and A1C Imperfection

You can walk away from diabetes-focused conferences with more than dry science and research news. Really, you can! That’s what I did recently after attending the Diabetes Today and Tomorrow conferenc...

18 may 12

D-Blog Week: Fantasy Diabetes Device

Today’s Diabetes Blog Week prompt is on Fantasy Diabetes Devices — which is just up our alley, all course! We’re all in search of the “Holy Grail” tool for diabetes care, whet...

17 may 12

In Sickness and In… Case of Violent, Irrational Lows

{Editor’s Note: This post is not meant to make light of domestic violence, which we recognize is an issue that needs to be taken seriously. Rather, this post is just a guy relying on his sense ...

17 may 12

D-Blog Week: One Thing to Improve

We are in the third day of the annual Diabetes Blog Week, hosted by Karen Graffeo over at Bitter-Sweet Diabetes. The topic today is One Thing to Improve. As Karen instructs: “Yesterday, we gave...

16 may 12

Gluten Free Pizza! … Or Maybe Not

When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that’s amore… Oh, sorry. I’ll stop singing that Dean Martin tune now. We have news… I think. So, Domino’s Pizza made headlines recently with its May...

16 may 12

D-Blog Week: Celebrating Pump Prowess

Welcome to Day 2 of the third annual Diabetes Blog Week, hosted by Karen Graffeo over at Bitter-Sweet Diabetes. The topic today: One Great Thing. Karen explains: “Living with diabetes (or carin...

15 may 12

Chatting with Novelist + Diabetes Auction Queen Brenda Novak

Brenda Novak is best known to the world as a New York Times best-selling author of historical and contemporary romance novels. But to the diabetes community, she’s famous for being the founder ...

15 may 12

It’s Diabetes Blog Week 2012! Find a Friend…

I’ve often read about doctors whose perspective changed drastically once they were diagnosed with a serious illness of their own. Suddenly, being a patient and just “doing what you’...

14 may 12

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