Factual Skincare by Claudia Shannon

Great CGM and Insulin Pump Patches for People with Diabetes

Band- Aid-like adhesives designed to fit around and secure your insulin pump infusion set or CGM sensor. The Simpatch universal CGM patch received ...

Thank You, Smartwatches: Monitoring Diabetes from Your Wrist

Today, we are grateful to simply be able to view glucose readings on a mainstream smartwatch thatâ€™s not designed specifically for diabetes. Some ...

Mutual Aid for People with Diabetes: Giving Back and Finding Help

One new effort to know about is a grassroots group calling itself Mutual Aid Diabetes, or MAD for short. Per the groupâ€™s website, â€œMutual Aid D...

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor is a Diabetes Inspiration

Sotomayor kept her diabetes mostly private for many years. Those are the words Iâ€™m using because those are the feelings that I vaguely thought as...

Diabetes Tech Nerd" Nick Galloway Advocates as a Patient and Provider

Did that initial ER experience motivate you to work in healthcare yourself? Nick works as a diabetes educator (aka Diabetes Care and Education Spec...

How Does a Tetanus Shot Affect Your Diabetes?

Johnathan, type 1 from Louisiana, asks: Do tetanus shots cause blood sugars to spike or fluctuate? Now, granted, thatâ€™s a small percentage of peo...

How to Enjoy Spa Treatments Safely with Type 1 Diabetes

Dr. Stephen Brewer, medical director of the famed Canyon Ranch in California, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Arizona told DiabetesMine they welcome peo...

Let's KonMari (Tidy Up) Our Diabetes Lives!

You can just imagine the rabbit holes this could send you down when thinking about diabetes supplies â€œsparking joyâ€â€¦. Knowing that nothing in...

Tandem Diabetes Basal-IQ: Setting The Stage for Advanced Closed Loop

Thereâ€™s a lot of excitement about the new Control-IQ feature coming soon from Tandem Diabetes Care, makers of the touchscreen t: slim X2 pump â€”...

NASA Space Technology and Diabetes

But over the past several decades weâ€™ve seen exciting applications of NASA tech applied to the diabetes world â€“ from space microgravity influen...