Insulin Nation
MAY 19, 2014
'Kerri Sparling’s new book Balancing Diabetes allows readers to join a thoughtful conversation among people with diabetes about finding happiness and living well. In this excerpt, Sparling illuminates how hard it must have been for her parents to care for a teen with Type 1: My mother always protected me. She and my father tried so hard and, in retrospect, I can’t imagine what it was like for them to raise a child with diabetes.
Medicine and Technology
MAY 23, 2014
Are you familiar with the Health Datapalooza ? What exactly is a palooza? The Urban Dictionary defines palooza as "an all-out crazy party; partying at one place with a ton of people like there's no tomorrow." You don't have to be a data junkie or an informatics geek to have fun at the Health Datapalooza. Health Datapalooza is a national conference focused on liberating health data, and bringing together the companies, startups, academics, government agencies, and individuals with the newest and
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Insulin Nation
MAY 21, 2014
'My son’s face said it all. I looked away, feeling guilty. I had just yelled at him while trying to get him to do a chore. Fifteen minutes of cajoling, reasoning, and arguing had gotten nowhere and I had lost my temper. Now, staring at his tear-stained face, I tried to look for signs of low or high blood sugar, but I couldn’t find a hint of either. I checked him anyway; he was low.
Insulin Nation
MAY 18, 2014
'If you’ve ever been given glucagon, chances are you weren’t focused enough to see how it was reconstituted. Considered the counterweight hormone to insulin, glucagon is typically only given in emergency situations to quickly treat extreme lows. It’s an invaluable tool to help people with diabetes, but not a convenient one. Glucagon quickly degrades with water, so it usually is kept in powder form and must be quickly mixed with water during an emergency, says Doug Baum, CEO of Xeris Pharmaceutic
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Insulin Nation
MAY 20, 2014
'Photo Credit: Bobby Quillard. In May, Austin Basis had a good kind of problem. The actor, who has Type 1 diabetes, was all set to attend his local Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) gala out in Los Angeles, but work got in the way. His television show, Beauty and the Beast , was picked up for a third season, meaning he had to uproot to Toronto to film new episodes of the popular sci-fi/romance series.
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