We’ve tried — as a family — to eliminate fast food a number of times. We’ve given it up for Lent countless times, we’ve banned it from the house except for once a week countless times, we’ve said we can only afford to do it once a month countless times.  Read More →

Sadly, I’ve been watching a lot of TV lately. The whole no school and no job thing leaves me with a lot of free time. This morning I was watching the Today show. A segment on infertility came on as soon as I switched the TV on.  Read More →

I receive a lot of emails with questions about diabetes, mostly on pump models or how to motivate teenagers to test their glucose more often.  I do my best to point people to the most valuable resources around. But late last week last I got an email I felt helpless to reply to: “I’m 28 years  Read More →

A comprehensive new survey of all 152 PCTs undertaken and published by the Medical Technology Group (MTG), backed by national diabetes support groups INPUT, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), clinicians and leading cross-party MPs, has exposed major inequities in care for patients with diabetes across the country…  Read More →

HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today released a series of free evidence-based guides designed to help Spanish speakers understand and compare the risks, benefits and side effects of treatments for eight health conditions. The guides provide valuable information that patients can use in talking with their clinicians…  Read More →

On my mom and I’s Italian vacation back in May, I discovered a new love: risotto. A delicious Italian rice dish that’s full of flavor and tailored to my own tastebuds. On the cruise, I had two types of risotto. My favorite was mushroom and spinach risotto which combines two of my favorite ingredients anyway.  Read More →

Back to School seems to be coming earlier every year — although for me, psychologically, it will always be the Tuesday after Labor Day.  Speaking of the psychological aspects of school life, I asked my D-correspondent extraordinaire Allison Blass to share her thoughts about being a kid with diabetes in the classroom: who do you  Read More →

One of the most ambitious large-scale projects in Human Genetics has been launched: Epitwin will capture the subtle epigenetic signatures that mark the differences between 5,000 twins on a scale and depth never before attempted, providing key therapeutic targets for the development of drug treatments…  Read More →

Today,  at the grocery store, I spotted a pump.  Read More →

I’ve been nursing a lot of highs lately. I’m not talking about the mediocre 200s, but full blown 400s and 300s. Both Saturday and today, I’ve been stuck well above a comfortable range.  Read More →

There is serious concern about top-selling diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia), its safety, as well as the whole system by which medications are regulated, evaluated and promoted worldwide, according to a BMJ (British Medical Journal) investigation. Dr. Fiona Godlee, BMJ Editor-in-Chief, thinks Avandia should not have been licensed; she believes it should be withdrawn…  Read More →

OK, so I haven’t raised a dime yet, but there are a couple things in the works. I contacted our local coffeehouse in town to see if they’d be interested in hosting a small benefit show. It will need to be small. The coffeehouse is about the size of my kitchen.  Read More →

My seven-year-old wanted to know: since we have so few official days here in America where all the people get off work, why is this one in particular called “Labor Day”? “Well… it’s for all the people who work really hard every day. It’s to celebrate them and their hard work,” I fumbled to explain. “Oh, like  Read More →

In a first person paper published in the August 27, 2010 issue of Childhood Obesity, Dr. Melinda Sothern, Director of Health Promotion and Professor of Public Health at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, provides three ways to de-program the 1950s obesity trinity underlying the current obesity epidemic in the United States and protect future generations from its health consequences…  Read More →

School children who consume foods purchased in vending machines are more likely to develop poor diet quality – and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease, according to research from the University of Michigan Medical School…  Read More →