Digital Health

JULY 30, 2014

There was a story in the Washington Post a few weeks back that started with this paragraph: “People, and especially men, hate being alone with their thoughts so much that they’d rather be in pain. In a study published in Science Thursday on the ability of people to let their minds “wander” — that is, for them to sit and do nothing but think — researchers found that about a quarter of women and two-thirds of men chose electric shocks over their own company.”.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 16, 2014

'Banting House National Historic Site of Canada. I often stare at an old photograph of Dr. Frederick Banting, the discoverer of insulin, to get ideas. I am inspired by his sheer tenacity. Against all odds, he succeeded in bringing insulin treatment into the world. I am completely in awe of how he had an idea and gave up everything right down to his old Ford to continue his research.

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Chilmark Research

JULY 1, 2014

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in America. One out of four adults has two or more chronic diseases. One in three children is overweight or obese. Projections are that by 2050, one third of Americans will have diabetes. These are America’s proverbial ball and chain: lifestyle-driven afflictions that are driving our healthcare spending through the roof, but which can be treated early, mitigated, and in some cases prevented altogether.

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American Well

JULY 23, 2014

Minnesota needs 850 more primary care physicians by 2020, a report released last week by the Minnesota Hospital Association says. The shortage of doctors in Idaho is getting dire. The government is projecting a nationwide shortage of 20,400 primary care physicians by 2020. With healthcare reform increasing the patient pool, the U.S. healthcare community must embrace virtual care to meet these challenges.

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Medicine and Technology

JULY 6, 2014

Misuse and abuse of opioids has grown to be a serious public health concern about addiction, overdose, and death. REMS-compliant training is a critical component of the ER/LA Opioid Analgesics REMS program. On July 9, 2012, the FDA approved a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) for extended-release (ER) and long-acting (LA) opioid medications.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 22, 2014

'Throughout July, we’re featuring excerpts from Ginger Vieira’s new book, Dealing with Diabetes Burnout. In this final edited excerpt from the book, the longtime life coach and diabetes advocate shares the lessons she’s learned from years of exercise with Type 1 diabetes. There is no doubt that exercising with diabetes is about one million times more challenging than exercising without diabetes, particularly if you take insulin.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 24, 2014

'Commentary. © Susan Hessing. The insulin pump got a glam shot mid-June when Sierra Sandison posted a photo of herself wearing an insulin pump during the bikini competition for the Miss Idaho pageant. The photo went viral through social media and she helped spark a #showmeyourpump Twitter campaign. Suddenly, the insulin pump that so many people with Type 1 diabetes try to conceal became front-page news in a glitzy way.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 10, 2014

'Stephanie Savarence, a 31-year-old mom of two, says she discovered insulin’s weight loss potential by accident. As a busy new mom, Stephanie started forgetting some of her injections and noticed her baby weight dropping quickly. After the healthy birth of her second baby, Stephanie says she immediately went back to those old habits. “I was the skinniest I had ever been in my adult life, and was constantly being told how great I looked,” she says.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 9, 2014

'ChameleonsEye / Shutterstock.com. Did you know that people with Type 1 diabetes also are at greater risk of having celiac disease? The odds of having celiac disease are 5 times to 7 times times greater for people with Type 1 diabetes than for the general population. Celiac disease is an autoimmune condition that causes an inflammatory state of the small intestine in genetically predisposed individuals.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 7, 2014

'Throughout July, we’re featuring excerpts from Ginger Vieira’s new book, Dealing with Diabetes Burnout. In this second of four excerpts being featured, Vieira argues small daily victories in daily diabetes care are better than shooting for being a perfect person with diabetes. Have you ever decided you’re suddenly going to do everything you’re “supposed to do” in diabetes management—like counting carbohydrates, taking your medications and insulin whenever you’re supposed to, checking your blood

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Insulin Nation

JULY 31, 2014

'Some people with Type 1 diabetes don’t like to advertise that they have the condition, even to their co-workers. We’ve put together a short video showing all the misunderstandings that can happen when a young woman decides to keep her co-workers in the dark about her diabetes. Do you tell your co-workers about your Type 1 diabetes? Why or why not?

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Insulin Nation

JULY 29, 2014

'All July, we’ve been featuring excerpts from Ginger Vieira’s new book, Dealing With Diabetes Burnout. To close out the month, we’re sharing one of Ginger’s tongue-in-cheek videos about living with diabetes. In this clip, Ginger lets loose on dietary supplement salespeople who troll her on the internet with supposed “cures” for Type 1 diabetes. As Ginger demonstrates, a good way to avoid diabetes burnout is to have a healthy sense of humor: To see more of Ginger’s great videos on life with diabe

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Insulin Nation

JULY 18, 2014

'Each day, my scientific team runs through dozens of scientific studies on Type 1 diabetes. It’s important to deduce what hasn’t panned out and why. We recently reviewed a Bench-to-Clinic Symposium on many of the immunotherapy trials used in man for the treatment of Type 1 diabetes; the goal of such an examination is to figure out the steps needed to take a new treatment from the experimental stage to everyday use.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 8, 2014

'There are two things that are a big part of Erin Spineto’s life: outdoor adventure and Type 1 diabetes. She works hard to make sure her love for the former outweighs her fear of the latter. In recent years, Spineto has committed to outdoor adventure partly to prove that people with Type 1 diabetes need not have limits. That’s what drove the California resident to run triathlons and sail solo around Key West in Florida, and it’s what made her decide more recently to organize a T1D relay swim tea

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Insulin Nation

JULY 14, 2014

'Every year, the U.S News and World Report ranks U.S. hospitals for best practices. Editors rank the hospitals based on surveys from the American Hospital Association and other medical organizations, patient feedback, and medical outcomes. Earlier, the publication released its 2014 rankings for the best children’s hospitals for treating Type 1 diabetes.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 10, 2014

'Throughout July, we’re featuring excerpts from Ginger Vieira’s new book, Dealing with Diabetes Burnout. In this third of four edited excerpts from the book, the longtime life coach and diabetes advocate suggests simple fixes to get more from your next doctor’s appointment. We need doctors (or nurse practitioners or certified diabetes educators) who are able to treat us like human beings rather than just patients with diabetes.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 2, 2014

'D-Parents love to give their children with Type 1 diabetes examples of adults with Type 1 who are doing great things. It’s even better when they can find examples of children with Type 1 diabetes doing amazing stuff; there’s nothing like a peer to motivate you. For “The Sugar Free Shawn Show”, Shawn Shepheard recently profiled Anwar Boutahar, an eight-year-old with Type 1 diabetes who is clearly an overachiever.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 18, 2014

'It can be difficult for young children with Type 1 diabetes to understand why their daily routines involve multiple pricks and injections, but now there’s a new toy to help. Jerry the Bear gives young children with Type 1 a companion in coping with diabetes. The stuffed animal is an interactive tool to help young children understand Type 1 diabetes self-care.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 23, 2014

'Chris Stiehl has the distinction of being the first human ever to receive an islet cells transplant via an outpatient endoscopy. Stiehl had the procedure done through the UCSF Diabetes Center, which is one of the leading islet cell research programs in the world; it also happens to be where his wife, Lorraine Stiehl, works as a communications coordinator.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 29, 2014

'All July, we’ve been featuring excerpts from Ginger Vieira’s new book, Dealing With Diabetes Burnout. To close out the month, we’re sharing one of Ginger’s tongue-in-cheek videos about living with diabetes. In this clip, Ginger lets loose on dietary supplement salespeople who troll her on the internet with supposed “cures” for Type 1 diabetes. As Ginger demonstrates, a good way to avoid diabetes burnout is to have a healthy sense of humor: To see more of Ginger’s great videos on life with diabe

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Insulin Nation

JULY 29, 2014

'An Insulin Cocktail? A group of European health regulators have recommended the approval of a drug treatment that combines long-lasting insulin with a drug that promotes insulin secretion. The combo drug would combine Novo Nordisk’s long-acting insulin and its insulin-promoting GLP-1 drug into a new product that would be called Xultophy, according to Fierce Biotech.

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Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist

If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 8, 2014

'The following is an edited excerpt from the book Don’t Double Bread the Fish, a Tale of Failure, Persistence, and Finding Success: I will never forget my son’s first preschool Halloween party. He decided to dress up as Darth Vader. The costume was a baggy black plastic get-up with a hard plastic mask. The mask only had a front with razor-sharp edges, and the back has a tight rubber band attached by the world’s weakest staple.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 15, 2014

'Tom Karlya and Tim Brand. Somehow we made it. We planned, we saved, we applied for scholarships, and all that work payed off when we arrived at the Children With Diabetes 2014 Friends For Life Conference in Orlando, Florida. We drove some 1200 miles with a baby, a pre-teen, and 2 girls with Type 1 diabetes to get to this four-day event, and it was all worth it.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 22, 2014

'Commentary. I want to talk to you about some Type 2 diabetes news…wait, wait! Don’t leave! This might concern you, too. In our latest tech roundup , we mentioned a study which found that people with Type 2 diabetes did better on pump therapy than multiple daily injections. This is not ground-breaking news, I know; pump therapy almost always performs better for people with diabetes.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 10, 2014

'Stephanie Savarence, a 31-year-old mom of two, says she discovered insulin’s weight loss potential by accident. As a busy new mom, Stephanie started forgetting some of her injections and noticed her baby weight dropping quickly. After the healthy birth of her second baby, Stephanie says she immediately went back to those old habits. “I was the skinniest I had ever been in my adult life, and was constantly being told how great I looked,” she says.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 9, 2014

'ChameleonsEye / Shutterstock.com. Did you know that people with Type 1 diabetes also are at greater risk of having celiac disease? The odds of having celiac disease are 5 times to 7 times times greater for people with Type 1 diabetes than for the general population. Celiac disease is an autoimmune condition that causes an inflammatory state of the small intestine in genetically predisposed individuals.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 18, 2014

'Mary Clark, agente de bienes raíces en Cincinnati, recientemente se ha acostumbrado a ser el centro de atención en la farmacia. Clark es una contratista independiente, que ha tenido problemas para encontrar seguros de salud que cubran los costos de la insulina que necesita para el manejo de su diabetes tipo 1. Desde el 2012, se ha dado cuenta que el precio que tiene que pagar, de su propio bolsillo, ha aumentado vertiginosamente; ha sido un incremento tan grande que incluso el farmacéutico paus

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Insulin Nation

JULY 23, 2014

'Este artículo fue traducido en español por Mila Ferrer. Es raro que un padre con 4 niños pueda tener una noche completa de sueño. Una noche de sueño se vuelve aún más incierta y arriesgada, dado el hecho de que dos de mis hijas tienen diabetes T1. Mi esposa y yo somos de las raras parejas que se van a la cama con dos medidores continuos de glucosa (MCG) a su alcance, ya que mis dos chicas utilizan la bomba de insulina OmniPod y el MCG Dexcom G4.

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