MTV’s True Life: I Have Diabetes
With the recent news of Paula Deen’s battle with type 2 diabetes, diabetes has been getting some negative coverage in
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Type 1 Issues
Preconception Counseling and Birth Control Options
Women and Diabetes
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The Night I Needed a Glucagon Injection
The one time I needed a glucagon injection, I didn’t have any. I had never been given a prescription for
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What Are Ketones, and Why Are They Important to Diabetes Self-Management?
All blood tests are tools. Some are to diagnose diabetes, some are to help you manage your diabetes on a
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Diabetes Show and Tell
In the eighties when I was in grade school, a classmate named Scott did a show-and-tell about his diabetes. He
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My Experience With Team Type 1
I first met Team Type 1 in 2006, when I was 17 years old. They were competing in the Race
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A Type 1 Diabetes Cure in the Pipeline?
What if we could stop the body’s immune system from attacking the pancreas in the first stages of type 1
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A “Broken Pancreas” Doesn’t Stop This Photographer on a Mission
When Ken Kotch was young, he used to tell his friends that he had a “broken pancreas” to explain his
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Reproductive Cells May Eventually Treat Type 1 Diabetes
Imagine if there were a cure for diabetes that could be found inside your own body? Wouldn’t it be nice
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Do You Have a Diabetes Sick Day Plan?
It’s that time of year again: flu season. I never thought much about getting a flu shot until fourteen years
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Swimmers with Diabetes Cross English Channel
Claire Duncan is one of many people with type 1 diabetes who wears a continuous glucose monitor and an insulin
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