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The Diabetes Six

Hi Guys Today is 6th Annual D-Blog Day 2010.  D-blog Day was started on November 9th 2005 during Diabetes Awareness Month, to help unite diabetes bloggers and create awareness about diabetes. This year’s topic is: 6 things you want people to know about diabetes. Diabetes does not have to be a Life Sentence!  Yes Diabetes is [...]

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Shoot Up’s Tim Talks Pump Start Ups

As I keep banging on about it, beloved readers of your soaraway Shoot Up will, by now, be well aware that I was hooked up to an insulin pump earlier this week. Anyway, I’m pleased to report that I’m still alive and all seems to be going well so far. Read more over @ Shoot Up or Put Up now…

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Why Social Media Could Harm Your Diabetes

Are you a twitterholic, do you spend more time on Facebook than you do on your 8 hour shift, do you have to let everyone in the world know every minute detail of your diabetic life? well you are not alone and it might not be  good for your health. Read more about Social Media [...]

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The Far Reaching Impact of Diabetes

This is the story of juvenile type 1 diabetes, its far-reaching impacts and what we need to do to defeat the sometimes disastrous effects of the disease.  The video tells the story of the Kuehl family and it debuted in Sept 2010 at Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institutes 2010 An Evening of Wine.  For more [...]

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Long Acting Insulin Degludec Has Lower Day to Day Variability

New data for ultra-long-acting insulin degludec show lower day-to-day variability compared to insulin glargine. You can also download the PDF version of this news article directly.

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What if you do not have a iPhone or iPod Touch

I read with enriched excitement today when news broke about Sanofi-Aventis introducing their new product which physically plugs into the iPhone and iPod Touch! It’s a tiny new USB-sized glucose meter they’re calling iBGStar.  You can read more about the iBGStar over at DiabetesMine. So what if you are not the lucky recipient of a [...]

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