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Why This Diabetic Isn’t Concerned About Her Insulin Pump Being Hacked
Jay Radcliffe is a fellow type 1 diabetic, and I remember reading his diabetes blog way back in the day, when I first started blogging. We read and commented on each other’s posts, and we were both part of the blogosphere when the DOC first started to grow. I knew he was married, had children, and did the day-to-day diabetes stuff that I did.
Which is why when I read the mainstream media’s take on his pump-hacking research (this article, Insulin Pumps Vulnerable to Hacking, for example), I reached out to him immediately. “Can I just tell you that my mother sent me this article about your research? Do you have time to talk?”
Jay was out in Las Vegas this morning, attending the Black Hat security conference, but he and I had a chance to hash it out over the ph…
Original post by Better Health
No commentsMobile Application Shown To Enhance Diabetes Care
It seems intuitive (at least to Medgadgeteers) that mobile technology can be used to improve health outcomes, but we still need studies to actually put data behind this idea.  A recent study of the DiabetesManager mobile health platform from WellDoc is a step in this direction. We last reported about WellDoc’s mobile diabetes application in 2010, and since that time it has been tested in a clinical trial and was shown to reduce HgbA1c by 1.9%.
The DiabetesManager is a behavioral coaching and clinical decision support system. Patients enter details about blood glucose values, medications, and behaviors via mobile phone, and health care providers receive quarterly summaries based on this information. (more…)
*This blog post was originally published at Medgadget* (Source…
Original post by Better Health
No commentsGuest Post: For All the Ladies.
Carey Potash is one of my favorite writers. Period. Not one of my favorite bloggers or one of my favorite diabetes-centric scribes, but just plain one of my favorite writers. His writing makes me think. He makes me laugh. (And he makes me cry while I’m laughing, but I don’t realize it until my cheeks are wet.) Carey has agreed to write a guest post for me today while I’m traveling, and I’m absolutely honored to have him.* * *Several years ago I stumbled upon a blog post that flat-out knocked me on my ass. It was a riveting and terrifying account of a young woman experiencing severe hypoglycemia while at the movie theater. I was immediately pulled in emotionally. I couldn’t help but view this as a future window into my …
Original post by Six Until Me.
No commentsDiabetes Feeties.
(That has to be one of the goofiest subject lines I’ve had in the last few … evers.)A few days ago, I received an email from a fellow T1 PWD who has been living with diabetes several decades … but hadn’t ever had a pedicure in her whole life.And I replied: "Neither have I."There were several crutons of information thrown at my family and I upon my diagnosis almost 25 years ago ("Don’t even think about getting pregnant" and "Pedicures will cause massive infections so none of that, either" being repeat offense croutons), and getting a manicure or a pedicure was always marked as a no-way back in the day. However, times are doing their "changin’" thing. From what I’ve been told, the risk is a possible infection. With all that …
Original post by Six Until Me.
No commentsGuest Post: Sleep, Perchance to 100 mg/dL?
Jessica Phillips guest posted on SUM a few years ago, talking about her first 500 days with diabetes. (Which prompted me to do the math, and as of today, I’ve lived approximately 9,097 days with type 1. Weeee?) And today, she’s back to talk about how her perception of sleep has changed for her since her diagnosis in 2008. Thanks for posting today, Jessica! * * *There has been a topic of debate in my mind recently, and it revolves primarily around sleep and diabetes. Thinking back to my childhood, I fondly remember the arguments I would come up with whenever I was prompted by one of my parents to go to bed. My protests against what I now deem as the most glorious of all activities included: "No, I am not sleepy/tired/ready" or "…
Original post by Six Until Me.
No commentsGuest Post: Sleep, Perchance to 100 mg/dL?
Jessica Phillips guest posted on SUM a few years ago, talking about her first 500 days with diabetes. (Which prompted me to do the math, and as of today, I’ve lived approximately 9,097 days with type 1. Weeee?) And today, she’s back to talk about how her perception of sleep has changed for her since her diagnosis in 2008. Thanks for posting today, Jessica! * * *There has been a topic of debate in my mind recently, and it revolves primarily around sleep and diabetes. Thinking back to my childhood, I fondly remember the arguments I would come up with whenever I was prompted by one of my parents to go to bed. My protests against what I now deem as the most glorious of all activities included: "No, I am not sleepy/tired/ready" or "…
Original post by Six Until Me.
No commentsWeight loss may improve men’s sexual health
This study may add another reason—to improve your sexual health—but we can’t be sure of the long-term results. Symptoms like difficulty getting an erection and difficulty urinating should always be checked out by a doctor. They could be a sign of more serious health problems.
See our advice on preventing and treating type 2 diabetes.
Sources
Comparing effects of a low-energy diet and a high-protein low-fat diet on sexual and endothelial function, urinary tract symptoms, and inflammation in obese diabetic men. [The Journal of Sexual Medicine.]
—Anna Sayburn, BMJ Group
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No commentsGrowing Up With Type 1 Diabetes
In the years I’ve attended CWD’s Friends for Life conference, I always came away with this appreciation for what the conference provides for kids with diabetes, and their parents. Kids – a whole bunch of them – running amuck and clad in green bracelets with pump tubing flapping from underneath their t-shirts … it’s a place where these families hopefully feel normal, and safe, and understood.
But I’m not a kid with diabetes. I’m an adult. (I checked, and it’s true: adult.) I always felt welcomed at past FFL conferences, but people constantly checked for the kid at my side, because the “child with diabetes” surely couldn’t be me. (And then there was that time that the registration lady thought Sara(aah) was my …
Original post by Better Health
No commentsDoctors diagnose diabetes 10 years later than the disease warrants
I like my patients vertical.  Not horizontal.If I can help it, I want to make sure that nobody gets a disease that could have been prevented.  Sure, accidents happen.  And illnesses show up every day in the lives of people who did nothing to deserve them, and who could have done nothing to prevent them.  But not all illnesses.Physicians know that newly diagnosed diabetic patients present to the doctor with about 10 years worth of damage to their blood vessels.  What does that mean?  That we diagnose diabetes 10 years later than the disease warrants.  It means that the symptoms we learn to identify come about 10 years after the disease begins.Read the rest of Doctors diagnose diabetes 10 years later than the disease warrants on KevinMD.com.Category: Conditions | Tags: Diabetes, Patie…
Original post by Kevin, M.D. – Medical Weblog
No commentsAnother FAD Approved Diabetes Drug Found Deadly
Yet another medication, approved for years by the FDA, is now being questioned. The Food and Drug Administration is now warning that diabetes medication Actos may actually increase the risk of bladder cancer when used for over a year.
Not again! What kinds of medicines are these that are being approved when the long-term results aren’t even known. We are supposed to trust the FDA to tell us how we can make ourselves better with the least possible risk.
Germany and France have already pulled the drug , and another drug from the same family, Avandia, was pulled from US shelves earlier this year because it increased risk of heart attacks!
Though the FDA won’t pull approval for the drug, they say they will issue a warning on the label. But what does that mean for those who suffer from dia…
Original post by Doctor Kalitenko antiaging blog
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