todayhealthchannel.com Last month, we asked people with diabetes toshare what they payfor their test strips. Its part of our ongoing#PriceCheck collaboration. Weve heard that the cost of test strips can vary greatly. Weve also heard that these test strips and the blood glucose monitors theyre used with can provide inaccurate data. As weve dug into […]
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A charity partnership called The Access Alliance wants to raise awareness about life with Type 1 diabetes around the globe. Many people living with Type 1 diabetes struggle to survive because they cannot afford their insulin or keep it cool, for example. Others do not have access to blood glucose test strips or other essential […]
Living with diabetes is hard. We know that, dont we? But what about policy-makers in the US tasked with evaluating and approving better drugs and treatments for diabetes? Lets start talking to the FDA to tell them what living with diabetes is really like and with 29 million of us living with the disease (in […]
The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists(AACE) has issued a safety alert to members onGlucose Monitoring, particularly for patients on medicare.In part the warning says: clinicians are urged to stipulate the specific brand/model of the blood glucose meters they prescribe and check with their local pharmacies to make sure that their prescriptions are filled as written. […]
Reposted fromhttp://www.diabetesstories.com/stories_blog/the-new-doctor-the-patient.html by Riva Greenburg As the number of people with diabetes continues its astonishing risefrom 26 to nearly30 millionand inpre diabetes from 79 to 86 million the number of endocrinologists who specialize in their treatment remains flat. There are roughly only 5,000 endocrinologists and 19,000 diabetes educators across the country today.How are we going […]
by Stephen Shaul http://happy-medium.net @StephenSType1 When I first discovered the group of boggers, reporters, healthcare professionals, and patient advocates that make up the Diabetes Online Community, I remember feeling really good about the upport and encouragement I was suddenly finding through the internet. I did not know much about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, […]
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Craig, the Human Pincushion, has a recent blog post that demonstrates advocacy excellence. Read it here:http://humanpincushionexperiment.blogspot.com/2014/09/d-stigma-in-idaho-leadership.html He wrote his Congressman His Congressman wrote back and was, to say the least, ill-informed. Our hero, the Pincushion, wrote back and helped set thing straight. You can help, Tweet this: Thanks @HumnPincushion for holding @Raul_Labrador accountable for stigmatizing […]
The #DOC is shedding new light on living with diabetes, in an attempt to help people without diabetes understand what living with diabetes is really like, and increase understanding and empathy, so we all can work together to raise the visibility of real life with diabetes. #WalkWithD, is a campaign designed to peel back the […]
Foster City, California: September 15, 2014 Diabetes Technology Society (DTS) is pleased to announce that it will hold apublic meeting regarding payer liability for funding inaccurate blood glucose monitors.This meeting, which is free to attend, is an extension of the DTS Surveillance Program for Cleared Blood Glucose Monitors, which was launched on May 20, 2014. […]