The healthcare press headlines read “digital diabetes care is not worth the cost.” Okay, that got my attention. But let’s take a closer look…
Category: Body
That time yogurt made me cringe
๐ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ: “Yogurts can make limited claim that the food reduces risk of type 2 diabetes, FDA says.”
FDA warning re: Using a smartwatch as a CGM
The FDA warned patients against using devices that don’t pierce the skin to check their glucose levels. Their readings are unreliable.
Oprahโs Ready to Talk about Ozempic, Are You?
Recently Oprah characterized using Ozempic for weight loss as โtaking the easy way out.โย
Wait. What?
Revisiting disaster prep with diabetes
It was about five years ago that I wrote my first article about the importance of disaster preparedness when living with diabetes. Looking back, the advice I gave then seems almost quaint. It was all about making sure your devices were charged up and you had a backup battery. These days disaster prep requires so much more.ย
800,000 souls lost to COVID-19
2021 was bookended by COVID. We started the year hoping that the pandemic would end and we could get back to some kind of normalcy. But, here we are. Not only does COVID remain at the forefront, with the Omicron variant it looks like the pandemic will continue to disrupt our lives well into 2022….