Insulin Nation

JUNE 10, 2016

Opinion. In the past three years that I’ve worked with the Type 1 community, I’ve proudly watched Type 1 advocacy mature into a potent political force. I’ve witnessed people affected by Type 1 use online organizing and on-the-ground lobbying to change laws and raise awareness, making life better for everyone with diabetes. Along the way, I’ve also seen this community experience growing pains, a phenomenon that happens with all social movements.

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ACA Times

JUNE 9, 2016

United Healthcare has been quite vocal about its losses due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), coupled with threats to withdraw from the ACA’s Health Insurance Marketplace come 2017. However, they are not alone in making graduated demands in the face of ACA-accused financial losses, especially in the state of New York. UnitedHealthcare, along with many other health care providers, is requesting huge pumps in premium rates to balance whatever losses they’ve reported.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 6, 2016

Unfortunately, researchers are finding that people with one autoimmune condition are prone to others. For example, a recent study has found that people with celiac disease and Type 1 diabetes have a higher risk of also developing autoimmune thyroid disease. The study, published in Diabetes Care , looked at patients in the Swedish National Patient Register.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 6, 2016

Two companies across two continents are partnering to bring an artificial pancreas to the market. Cellnovo, a French company known for it’s connected insulin patch pump, has partnered with TypeZero Technologies to create an artificial pancreas system for people with Type 1 diabetes. The system will rely on Dexcom’s continuous glucose meter to monitor glucose levels, TypeZero’s inControl artificial pancreas software to calculate management of blood sugar levels and insulin delivery, and Cellnovo’

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 10, 2016

An Australian woman who wrestles with diabulimia has gone public to share the physical toll the disorder has taken on her body. In a Daily Mail Australia report, Skye Simpson shared how skipping insulin injections has left her with blurred vision, bald patches, and no teeth. Simpson first began to skip insulin after she was complimented for her looks following an illness.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 9, 2016

In the UK, nearly three-quarters of young people with Type 1 diabetes are not getting the medical attention they need, according to a Diabetes.co.uk report. A UK government audit concluded that only 27% of those with Type 1 under the age of 40 received all eight recommended check-ups a year. The audit also revealed that geographical location played a significant role in how much care people with Type 1 received.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 10, 2016

A new study suggests that children with Type 1 diabetes might be more at risk of epilepsy. For the study , researchers collected records from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database, which included 2,600 adolescents with Type 1. They looked to see how often a child with Type 1 also had epilepsy, and then compared that rate to the rate of epilepsy in a control group of 26,000 teens who did not have Type 1.

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ACA Times

JUNE 6, 2016

The Kaiser Family Foundation has released the third installment of a survey series focusing on consumers’ opinions on their health care purchased through the ACA’s Health Insurance Marketplace. The survey reflected the sentiment of consumers from a wide array of topics surrounding their Marketplace experience. In general, consumers were satisfied. However, the further breakdown shows that they are not as pleased as they were with premiums and deductibles two years prior. 64% of those surveyed ha

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ACA Times

JUNE 7, 2016

In a move to provide health care for the underprivileged, the Affordable Care Act offered a Medicaid expansion—one that, to date, 19 states have still not accepted. However, a new survey suggests that the two largest states without Medicaid expansion would welcome it with open arms. The survey was conducted by Nielsen and released by Houston’s Texas Medical Center Health Policy Institute, evaluating five densely populated states including Ohio, California, Texas, Florida and New York.

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