Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 5, 2015
After months of political wrangling, North Carolina legislators succeeded in passing a bill that would promote diabetes screening for infants and toddlers, and parent education about the symptoms of Type 1 diabetes. The legislation, known as Reegan’s Rule, stalled for months, and it took some last-minute heroics on the part of its sponsors for it to pass.
American Well
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
The Lay of the Land. Telemedicine is a hot topic in healthcare, with consumers more willing than ever to see a doctor remotely. In a national study of over 2,000 consumers , 64% said they would be willing to have a telehealth visit with their doctor via video. The Alliance for Connected Care concludes that a telehealth visit for acute care represents $126 in savings over an in-person visit.
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Import Immunity
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Whenever software friends visit Adaptive , I make a point of showing them a multichannel pipette. It’s actually a pretty cool piece of technology, but from a design perspective it just feels wrong. Like, if one pipette is good, then a ton of them must be even better, right? Maybe not. At some point, incrementing old solutions isn’t enough. That’s why robots are taking over the job of liquid handling in the lab — they’re just fundamentally better at it than people, no matter how many tips y
BHM Healthcare Solutions
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
The healthcare industry is rapidly growing: With innovations in medical tools and new successful procedures performed annually, there is no shortage of change. Just as vital to the industry are solutions that help manage the information of the millions of patients who visit each year. To keep up with the demand and to facilitate the process, adjusting healthcare information management practices is a necessity.
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Insulin Nation
AUGUST 25, 2015
A few months before I graduated college, I was diagnosed with ADHD, Generalized Anxiety, and OCD. Now that I’m taking medicine for ADHD, which also helps with my anxiety, I realize the impact my mental health has on my diabetes. When I notice triggers that affect both, I try to work on them. Here are 7 things I’d love for other people to keep in mind regarding diabetes and mental health, based on my experience: 1.
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Insulin Nation
APRIL 3, 2015
'Sometimes, promising Type 1 diabetes treatments are developed from treatments for other conditions. If you have Type 1 diabetes, there’s good reason to be interested in what’s happening with the BCG vaccine, a treatment used to curb the spread of tuberculosis. BCG stands for “bacillus Calmette-Guerin,” a weakened strain of bacteria that has been used in humans for over 90 years, typically for the prevention of tuberculosis.
Insulin Nation
JULY 28, 2015
Michael J. Fox once said this about living with Parkinson’s disease: “I often say now I don’t have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson’s, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.”. As someone who lives with Type 1, I argue that you can say the same about living with Type 1. You don’t have a choice whether or not you have Type 1 diabetes, but you can make “a million other choices” of how you will live with it.
Insulin Nation
JULY 9, 2015
Glucagon can make the difference between life and death during a severe bout of hypoglycemia, but using it requires someone to mix up and inject the right dosage during a crisis situation. That’s asking a lot, especially of strangers who might not have any medical training or diabetes knowledge. Too often, glucagon isn’t administered until the emergency room, and that can be too late to prevent hospitalization or death.
Insulin Nation
SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
The odds that Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is the first person with diabetes to be seated on the highest court are pretty long. However, Justice Sotomayor is the first to reveal her diabetes diagnosis in a very public way. She let it be known that she has Type 1 in her 2013 memoir, My Beloved World. Her memoir opens with an account of her frightening emergency trip from Sunday church to the hospital; she was diagnosed with diabetes at age 7.
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Insulin Nation
JULY 16, 2015
A BBC drama has drawn the ire of the diabetes community in the United Kingdom for its portrayal of how to treat hypoglycemia, and the show’s author hasn’t helped with her defense of the scene. According to a report in the Mirror (U.K.) , the season finale of The Syndicate featured a character with Type 1, Amy, who declared she was suffering from low blood sugar.
Insulin Nation
MARCH 25, 2015
'Integrated Diabetes Services (IDS) provides detailed advice and coaching on diabetes management from certified diabetes educators and dieticians. Insulin Nation hosts a regular Q&A column from IDS that answers questions submitted from the Type 1 diabetes community. Q: My 4-year-old was diagnosed with Type 1 a little over a month ago. I am just curious about what it physically feels like for her to experience highs and lows.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
'If you’re a baseball fan, then nothing makes you smile in winter like the phrase “pitchers and catchers”, which is the signal for the start of Spring Training. Baseball has a long tradition of welcoming players with Type 1 diabetes, including two Hall of Famers: Catfish Hunter, who won over 200 games and 5 World Series championships, and Ron Santos, who smacked 342 home runs during his career.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 23, 2015
'Commentary. Shortly before the 2014 Super Bowl, the Chicago Bears of the NFL made a big splash by signing their starting quarterback, Jay Cutler, to a seven-year, $126.7 million contract. This contract was big news in the NFL. It was even bigger news in the Type 1 diabetes community than the sporting world, as Cutler has Type 1 diabetes, and has been active in the Type 1 community.
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Insulin Nation
JUNE 22, 2015
The price of insulin is always a hot-button topic. Many in the diabetes community have expressed outrage at the climbing price for insulin and at disparities in the price of insulin. Similar anger popped up at the ADA Scientific Session in Boston. At one presentation, doctors squared off for a debate on whether new generation insulins were worth it for treating Type 2 diabetes, but consensus soon emerged that diet and exercise were better initial strategies.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 5, 2015
There is a disturbing report out of Ireland of a parent refusing to give her child insulin to treat Type 1 diabetes. According to a story in the Irish Times , the High Court of Ireland has had to intervene in a medical dispute that took place in a Dublin hospital. On September 30, 2015, a 13-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital because of symptoms of untreated diabetes.
Insulin Nation
AUGUST 28, 2015
At around 8:30pm one night I asked my son if he could put on his CGM—he was going to have an active week and I wanted more experience monitoring his blood sugar levels. He balked at the idea. To prove that it wasn’t a big deal to wear a CGM, I came up with the bright idea to wear it myself. I should’ve known I was in trouble when I had to ask my husband for help just putting on the thing.
Insulin Nation
MARCH 30, 2015
'In honor of April Fool’s Day, Insulin Nation is taking a day off from covering real news on Type 1 to bring you some fake news. Enjoy! (Use the zoom function on the upper right if the text is too small for you.).
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Insulin Nation
MARCH 16, 2015
'In their annual report, the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation recently highlighted their Top 6 research breakthroughs in 2014: Better Islet Coating. Dr. Alice Tomei, DRI assistant professor of surgery and cell transplantation, successfully demonstrated a viable way of coating insulin-producing islet cells. A study provided evidence that Dr. Tomei’s team had devised a way of encasing islet cells in thin, uniform capsules that would protect the cells during transplantation.
Insulin Nation
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
There has been a push to catch Type 1 diabetes before diabetic ketoacidosis sets in, but some researchers wonder if we should be catching Type 1 years before symptoms appear. That was the focus of a recent JDRF webinar led by the organization’s chief scientific officer, Dr. Richard Insel. Dr. Insel shared the findings of a large study published in Diabetes Care which found that biomarkers for Type 1 diabetes often could be found years before those with Type 1 showed symptoms.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 4, 2015
'I wanted to get a tattoo, but people discouraged me from doing it because of my Type 1 diabetes. The naysayers told me that we didn’t heal well enough, that we got infections too easily, that there was just too much risk. But then I began noticing people with diabetes-related tattoos. Some people were getting them on their wrists in place of MedicAlert bracelets.
Insulin Nation
NOVEMBER 17, 2015
Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC Last Halloween, we wrote a tongue-in-cheek story on how people with Type 1 diabetes could survive a zombie apocalypse. Now, the show The Walking Dead has provided proof that someone on insulin did survive an outbreak of zombieism…if only brief SMALL SPOILER ALERT. This article will talk about a minor character in Season 6 of The Walking Dead, and a possible future plot point.
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Insulin Nation
AUGUST 7, 2015
As if balancing blood sugar levels was not hard enough, people affected by Type 1 also must balance their checkbooks as they try to afford life-sustaining insulin. That stress is aggravated when drug companies make it clear they view insulin as a cash cow, either by raising insulin prices much faster than the cost of production or by engaging in protracted legal battles to keep long-acting insulin formations from going generic.
Insulin Nation
AUGUST 13, 2015
Adrenaline flows on race day for the cyclists of the Novo Nordisk team, and they inevitably must adjust their insulin regimen to compensate for both the excitement and the arduous race ahead. That excitement is shared by those spectators waiting to be inspired by this team of pro cyclists, all of whom have Type 1. Yet for Vassili Davidenko, the team’s general manager, there is a certain, and rare, calmness to race day.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 11, 2015
'As I write this, I have been the parent of a child with Type 1 for 56,328 hours. According to the Malcom Gladwell book Outliers , after doing anything for 10,000 hours, I should be an “expert” at it. Even with my “expertise,” however, diabetes can still confuse me just as it did on Day 1. I have learned a few things along the way to Hour 56,328 that might be helpful for other parents of children with diabetes, be they “experts” themselves or white-knuckled beginners: 1.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 22, 2015
'Commentary. People with Type 1 diabetes may have felt a flutter in their hearts when they saw headlines that a 4-year old boy from Australia was fitted with a new type of diabetes pump technology. That’s because some news outlets, including the Guardian (UK) and the West Australian , labeled the new device an “artificial pancreas.”. By employing those two magic words these two news outlets waded into a debate that has been simmering behind the scenes in the diabetes community for several years:
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Insulin Nation
JULY 27, 2015
Integrated Diabetes Services (IDS) provides detailed advice and coaching on diabetes management from certified diabetes educators and dieticians. Insulin Nation hosts a regular Q&A column from IDS that answers questions submitted from the Type 1 diabetes community. Q – I have diabetes and use an insulin pump. Although I’m healthy, I worry about the care I might receive if I have to stay in a hospital.
Insulin Nation
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
In the summer of 2009, I was participating in a summer program for high schoolers at Georgetown University, and I could sense something was a little off. I explained away my insatiable thirst because of the summer heat, but I kept waking up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. My face looked a little thinner in the photos from the end of the program than the photos from the first day.
Insulin Nation
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
Advocates calling for earlier Type 1 detection have formed a new group to raise awareness about the dangers of a missed Type 1 diagnosis. The group, UPrising Against DKA (“United Parents Rising Against Diabetic Ketoacidosis,”) has built a membership of more than 1,800 since its creation in July. Page administrator Cindy Turner, who helped form the advocacy group TestOneDrop , urges others to “unite against the lack of education and complacency that allows unnecessary life-threatening illnesses,
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