Whose Diabetes is it anyway?
Following a manic weekend of tweeting and a number of discussions brought on as a result of my clinic appointment on Friday, a couple of […]
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Close encounters of the worst kind – an everyday encounter with @NHSDiabetes
Six monthly diabetes clinic appointment time and I was in high hopes. I had my agenda, knew what I wanted to say, and had prepared […]
Crowd Sourcing Diabetes Data – an extension of @NightscoutFdn for patient led clinical trials? #WeAreNotWaiting
Susannah Fox (@SusannahFox) 19/01/2016, 03:04 Peer-to-peer healthcare: Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Obvious. (We’re getting there.) susannahfox.com/2011/05/25/pee… I saw the above tweet in my feed this morning, […]
Targeting insulin at the liver where it should be – Hepatocyte-Delivered Vesicle for Insulin
Whilst we are on the subject of novel diabetes treatments, I recently came across Hepatocyte Directed Vesicle Insulin from Diasome, and this one is a […]
#Afrezza or How not to do Diabetes Pharma. Can @SanofiDiabetes shed a little more light? – Updated
***NOTE: This post has been updated following re-reading of the SEC documents relating to the Chang Yi LIang case due to mis-reading of the data*** […]
#FreestyleLibre Now on NightScout – #wearenotwaiting
I’ve been using the Freestyle Libre for over a year now and the third party apps are getting better and better. Glimp has now reached […]
#wearenotwaiting – Disparity of access to Type 1 Diabetes treatments – Globalization? You are having a laugh.
All the time spent on looking at various aspects of Diabetes care during Diabetes Awareness Month made one thing very clear, which was massively accentuated […]
Why isn’t Glucagon suppression part of Diabetes treatment?
Following discussions on the diabetes.co.uk forum recently, I decided that it was worth re-addressing the issue of Glucagon in the Type 1 Metabolic cycle. But […]
Why do Eggs cause high blood glucose in the absence of carbs? Here’syour answer…
Eggs, for many T1s, require almost as much insulin as carbohydrate. Yet eggs contain no noticeable carbs. What they do have is loads of protein […]
Beer. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing…
As the title says, the picture below conveys. Beer is good for nothing as a T1D. Why? It’s about the hardest thing to control. Liquid […]