As you all know, President Obama lifted Bush’s longstanding restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research yesterday — a huge breakthrough for all those who believe this avenue could produce unprecedented treatments for many incurable diseases. Like diabetes. Among others,...

As a person with Type 1 diabetes, whose life is all wrapped up in helping others with this incurable illness, it’s hard to express the relief and yes — joy — that I feel knowing that researchers hands will finally be untied by Obama today to freely explore the enormous possibilities of stem ce...

Wow, and I thought picking winners for our Holiday Sweepstakes diabetes wisdom contest was difficult!  But for the NEW YEAR, NEW YOU Diabetes Makeover competition, what we ended up judging were people’s life stories — their hard luck and their struggles with diabetes and related health conditio...

A lot of people write to me explaining how they sometimes feel so blindingly angry about having diabetes. They're just pissed off, and I can't blame them. Living with this thing is inconvenient and aggravating, to say the very least.......

A lot of people write to me explaining how they sometimes feel so blindingly angry about having diabetes. They're just pissed off, and I can't blame them. Living with this thing is inconvenient and aggravating, to say the very least.......

A lot of people write to me explaining how they sometimes feel so blindingly angry about having diabetes. They're just pissed off, and I can't blame them. Living with this thing is inconvenient and aggravating, to say the very least.......

I had a fascinating on-site briefing with the folks at Pelikan Sun in Palo Alto on Tuesday. That's the company that makes the current "gold standard" in lancing -- the world's only electronic and completely painless finger-pricking device (really, it......

I honestly thought that with Type 1 diabetes, my immune system was shot to hell. But my husband and oldest daughter always get sick faster and longer than I do. Somehow I seem to fight off "bugs" better than they......

How is it that 2007 has come and gone, and we, the Diabetes Community, have hardly heard a thing about this major piece of proposed legislation to "combat diabetes"? Or was it just me who had her head stuck in......