Sarah and Puffle: A Story for Children About Diabetes by Linnea Mulder, R.N.-27 pages, $8.95 + S&H
Available from: Magination Press, 19 Union Square West, New York, NY, 10003
Phone: (800) 825-3089
During a summer on the farm, Sarah faces …
Letters to the Editor
For Love or Money?
Having used beef-pork ultralente insulin in our intensive diabetes program for ten years, I find it unacceptable that the company would remove it from the market. How can it not be profitable to continue producing the …
Metformin: Who Should Take It?
Several prominent endocrinologists gathered in San Diego this past January to develop guidelines for prescribing metformin. Speaking at the American Diabetes Association Post-Graduate course were: Alan J. Garber, MD, PhD, of Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine; Ralph A. DeFronzo, MD, …
Educator Of The Month
Eileen Corkery started her career as a visiting nurse, bringing healthcare into peoples’ homes. Fifteen years later, she’s still educating, but now people come to her.
Corkery is the Adult Diabetes Education Coordinator at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York …
7 Steps to Mastering Diabetes
- Set your expectations correctly. Give yourself about two years to master your diabetes. Mastering your diabetes is a lot like skiing: It takes just a day to get started but years to get good at it.
- Go with the flow.
Recipe For The Good Life – 74-Year-Old Gets Cookin’
It was a year ago that Evelyn Narad found herself practically immobilized by a broken shoulder. A 74-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes, she was very overweight, dependent on daily insulin, and miserable.
The onetime gym teacher had been a …
Questions and Anwers About Metformin and Type 2 Diabetes
DIABETES HEALTH: What is metformin?
Dr. Einhorn: Metformin hydrochloride is a new oral anti-hyperglycemic for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. It has been available for decades in other countries but has only been available in the United States since …
New Drug For Type 2 Diabetes
The FDA recently approved a new drug that offers excellent benefits for people with type 2 diabetes. Metformin, marketed under the name Glucophage by Bristol-Myers Squibb, is an oral medication for people with non-insulin dependent diabetes. Although metformin has been …
Disconnect From Your Pump with a Simple Twist and Click, The New Quick Release from MiniMed Technologies
Up until now insulin pump therapy has meant always being attached to a pump. Despite the many benefits it provides, this is something that has discouraged some people from considering pump therapy for the management of their diabetes. However, a …
MiniMed Offers Pump Classes… for Doctors
Physicians are invited to attend one of the MiniMed Insulin Pump Therapy Symposia being offered around the United States. Four symposia are scheduled during the next several months. They will take place in Seattle, Rochester, N.Y., Little Rock, Ark., and …
