Insulin Nation

APRIL 7, 2014

'In 1923, Dr. Elliott Joslin said, “Insulin is a remedy primarily for the wise and not for the foolish, be they patients or doctors. Everyone knows it requires brains to live long with diabetes, but to use insulin successfully requires more than brains.”. Diabetes is a hard disease to understand for both patients and doctors. Too often, we boil it down to insulin, or the lack thereof, but there is so much more to it than that.

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Meaningful HIT News

APRIL 9, 2014

Yesterday, Grand Rounds , a San Francisco-based startup that makes an “outcomes management platform” for large employer groups, introduced Office Visits , an online service that helps consumers find “quality” physicians close to home. I’ve long been skeptical of any claims of healthcare quality or any listing of “best” physicians or hospitals, so I invited Grand Rounds co-founder and CEO Owen Tripp on for a podcast to explain what his company is doing.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 9, 2014

'In the book typecast, Andrew Deutscher profiles everyday heroes in the T1 community. The following is an excerpt from that book: Kamaal and Malcom Washington. Kamaal was diagnosed with T1 at age 9. On a family trip to St. Louis in 2003, 9-year-old Kamaal Washington was constantly thirsty, thirsty to the point of downing 42-oz. drinks back-to-back and not being sated.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 11, 2014

'Paul McKinnon / Shutterstock.com. Insulin Nation received an email from a reader in Venezuela with a son with T1. Massive street protests and a faltering economy have created a critical shortage of medical supplies in Venezuela. Below is a translated and edited version of her story, along with the reader’s original text in Spanish. Read more to find out how you can help : In April 2010, my 12-year old son was diagnosed with T1, and since then I have been living in a semi-permanent state of anxi

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 8, 2014

'Insulin Nation received a lot of great feedback from our recent article celebrating people who have survived and thrived for 50 years or more with T1. Some readers sent in their own success stories, and we wanted to share: . Mary Louise Granger, 56 years (not pictured here). “I was 12 years old when my teacher sent a note home to my parents stating that I was constantly asking to be excused from class to use the lavatory.

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