Archive for Diabetes Care

  • LifeScan OneTouch Counterfeit Glucose Test Strips are Out There

    LifeScan, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company and makers of the OneTouch® Brand of diabetes testing supplies, has identified several incidents of counterfeit OneTouch® Ultra® and OneTouch® (Basic®/Profile®) Test Strips. These test strips being sold in th...

  • Foot Issues Related to Diabetes Awareness Month Foot Issues Related to Diabetes Awareness Month

    Did you know that April marked Foot Issues Related to Diabetes Awareness Month, how often are you checking your feet? April is deemed Foot Issues Related to Diabetes Awareness Month. Unfortunately, many people with diabetes are unaware of the importance of routine foot care. Physicians and educat...

  • Diabetes and Denial

    Unfortunately Type 2 Diabetes has the highest denial rate of any disease known to man. I know this to be true from my own experience. When I was diagnosed with having diabetes in the year 2000, I did not change anything about my lifestyle for a long time. It wasn't until I started having more pro...

  • Technological Advancement in Treatment of Diabetes

    Treatment of Diabetes has advanced in the last 50 years or so. Back in the 50's a strip that was placed in the urine could give a rough estimate to an insulin user on the amount that was needed in their injection. It was not very accurate and not at all convenient. Today diabetes patients are abl...

  • Change Your Old Blood Sugar Meter to Something Stylish Change Your Old Blood Sugar Meter to Something Stylish

    If you're sick and tired of staring at your old glucometer, then there's something new out there that might interest you. Check out Stick Me Designs' blood sugar meter cases. Here's a note and some history on how Rickina Velte came up with the idea. After I became pregnant with my second son Ace,...

  • Indicator Plaster Neuropad Is Key In Early Diabetic Neuropathy Detection Indicator Plaster Neuropad Is Key In Early Diabetic Neuropathy Detection

    Diabetic Neuropathy can go undetected in Diabetics and therefor the area is not taken care of the way that it needs to be once neuropathy sets in. That is why IPN products such as Neuropad is giving patient's a needed heads up in the detection of neuropathy. Along with countless side effects from...

  • High Fructose Corn Syrup is the Devil

    High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is any of a group of corn syrups that has undergone enzymatic processing to increase its fructose content, and is then mixed with pure corn syrup (100% glucose), becoming a high-fructose corn syrup. An overweight America may be fixated on fat and obsessed with comp...

  • Your First Year With Diabetes. You Have to Check Out This Book. Your First Year With Diabetes. You Have to Check Out This Book.

    I just read the book "Your First Year With Diabetes - What to do Month by Month" which was written and illustrated by Theresa Garnero, APRN, BC-ADM, MSN, CDE. It is phenomenal. Your First Year With Diabetes is essentially a month by month guide letting you know exactly what you should be doing an...

  • Preventing Diabetes Vision Loss

    What is the leading cause of blindness in the United States of America? Diabetes. Researchers are now stating that diabetes related vision loss can be prevented if the disease is treated in time. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. has reported that only 50 to 60 percent of people with diabetes g...

  • Delta Burke is Battling Diabetes with the Lets Talk Campaign Delta Burke is Battling Diabetes with the Lets Talk Campaign

    Actress Delta Burke was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at the age of 41. Her goal is to get people talking about better management of diabetes. She is achieving that goal by leading the BYETTA Let's Talk Campaign. The BYETTA Let's Talk Campaign has been designed towards teaching patients of typ...