My (Most Excellent) Life as a Pancreas

Funny what you find when you clean out your closets. As I was sorting through some of the piles of diabetes-related materials in my office last week, I uncovered this cheery-looking little book called “My Life as a Pancreas” by Priscilla Call Essert: Someone had sent it to me for review a while back, and I...

Happy Birthday to Me

Glucose averages looking good. Got a clean mammogram result last week. Enjoying a beautiful — if not entirely sunny — day today with my partner (still the love of my life) and my three unbelievable girls. Thinking about how much fun we had over Spring Break a few weeks’ back: Life is good, even when you no...

The Jury’s Still Out on Victoza

Novo Nordisk is well-known in the diabetes community for its insulins, Novolog and Levemir, used to treat mainly type 1 diabetes. But in the last year, Novo launched a new kind of injectable, a “first line of defense for people with type 2 diabetes” called Victoza (generic: liraglutide). It’s a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) drug designed...

Beating the Odds with Richard Vaughn: Over Half a Century of Diabetes

Richard Vaughn is a bit of a legend in the diabetes online community. Known more widely as Richard157 on several diabetes forums, Richard began sharing his story of living with type 1 diabetes for over 60 years via forum posts in 2007 and has become an inspiration for many. Last week, Richard also became a...

NEWSFLASH: New Sanofi-Aventis Glucose Meters, Brought to You By AgaMatrix

Today, Sanofi-Aventis announced that it’s getting into the glucose meter manufacturing business, by partnering with a small company known for highly accurate meter technology, AgaMatrix (makers of WaveSense products, based on a patented electrochemistry formula). Reports say the new Sanofi-branded meters will be out later this year, and that this move is part of a larger...

Good Glucose Control is Good for Your Health and Your Heart

Click the video to pause play. This video is 1:09 minutes in duration and took 12 seconds to load over a DSL connection. You will need the latest version of the Free QuickTime Player to view it. Additional help for Mac users.A great deal of attention has been given to the prospect that it you try to “get to goal” on the Hemoglobin A1c measurement with your diabetes management you may trigger a heart attack or stroke in the process.In an article reviewed by my professional organization, the...