Diabetes Health has always been committed to building a compassionate and supportive world-wide community in diabetes education and information. We believe all people with diabetes can be provided with the help needed to reach treatment success.

We know you have hard-earned diabetes wisdom and we want you to share it with our web audience. Please join us as a professional or lay diabetes advisor in one of our Diabetes Health website rooms.

Our website is logically broken down into numerous content rooms where learning about specific diabetes issues and solutions is easy. We plan to make these and future rooms even more interactive. This will be a place where individuals can get diabetes assessments and treatment option information on every topic.

We’re asking you to choose the content room you’re the most qualified for and feel the most passionate about. Then you’ll work with Diabetes Health and other volunteers to provide a short overview and a list of solutions for people interested in your topic.

It’s a win-win proposition both for people with diabetes and diabetes healthcare professionals. In addition to our unflagging support and appreciation, you’ll receive increased exposure for your projects and written works to our 2.28 million (and growing!) annual audience.

You can sign up right now at www.diabeteshealth.com/apply. Once you log in or register, you’ll see a list of website rooms and you can make your selection.

Join us. Anyone who’s passionate about improving the state of diabetes care is welcome.

Together we can make a difference.

When does a visit to the eye doctor mean more than just a new pair of glasses and a change in prescription? When it can change—or even save—your life.

7 comments - 31 Jul 2008 -

In a report published in the December 23, 2000, issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), researchers at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom write that hypoglycemia is one of the complications of diabetes most feared by patients. They point out, "Intensive research has been devoted to the development of hypoglycemia alarms."

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The newly opened Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine in Stoughton, Mass., is now offering comprehensive wound management care, including hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), which has been used successfully to treat diabetic ulcers.

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You’ve got type 2 diabetes. A few years ago, you started using a long-acting insulin once a day, and your fasting glucose levels and your A1c came down. But now your A1c is creeping back up. Your doctor tells you that you need to add a mealtime insulin to your plan.

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What do an African medicine man, a diabetes researcher, a feminist philosopher, and a Native American psychologist have in common? They are all part of a new documentary, now in production, dealing with the psychological component of living with diabetes.

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July 27, 2008 marked the eighth full month that my son has not used insulin. His last A1c was 5.9%, on July 9, 2008. On August 14th of this year, it will be one year since he was originally diagnosed with type 1. As you know, he was taken off insulin on November 27, 2007, about a month after getting the experimental drug teplizumab. I don't know if it is the drug or not, but others have taken it with good results. It will be interesting to see if they ever get the drug approved and can use it quickly on newly diagnosed type 1s.

15 comments - 31 Jul 2008 -

The Los Angeles City Council has voted unanimously to ban the opening of new fast food restaurants in South Los Angeles (aka “South Central”) and nearby neighborhoods.

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San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., posted a second-quarter loss of $64.8 million, or 47 cents per share. This compares to a 2007 second-quarter loss of 45 million, or 34 cents a share.

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