I know what you are thinking: it has been almost 4 months since the last article about technical updates on Glu, surely things must be changing again. Rest assured, we (the development team behind Glu) are constantly making changes to improve the site; some just aren’t as newsworthy. For example, last month we changed the […]

—Kelly Close. To view the original article on diaTribe, please click here. At diaTribe, we are always grateful when diabetes receives coverage in the media. Since it affects so many people, it’s always a mystery to me that it gets so little exposure. That’s why I was excited to see the short documentary “Midnight, Three, […]

A recent multinational collaboration found that the percentage of children over the age of 6 years living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) who use insulin pumps is higher in the US than in England, Wales, Germany, and Austria, and in all of these countries, HbA1c levels were lower among pump users. In this collaboration, investigators […]

Patient advocates use facts, the media, their relationships, and messaging to influence public policy, budgets, regulations, and laws regarding changes they want to bring for themselves and caregivers. They make their voices heard with the public and government officials. Historically, the medical care system placed physicians in a position of authority with patients playing a […]