Robard Corporation Acquires DiabetesCare.net
by DiabetesCare.net | Oct 15, 2015 | Blogs
Robard Corporation, a leading developer and provider of obesity treatment programs and products, announced today that it has acquired DiabetesCare.net, an online educational source for diabetes related news, interviews, blogs, and free-to-use tools. With this acquisition, Robard aims to further diversify the information and resources it offers to...
Mindfulness as a Complementary Exercise for Diabetes Management
by DiabetesCare.net | Oct 8, 2015 | Blogs
Mindfulness meditation and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) can be used across a wide variety of diseases and conditions. Mindfulness is especially helpful as a coping mechanism for living with chronic disease, because it addresses issues of stress thereby helping to improve self-care. I’ve had type 1 diabetes for over 23 years and my 25-plus-year...
How Keeping One Hormone in Balance Can Aid Blood Sugars
by DiabetesCare.net | Oct 7, 2015 | Blogs
Even though it is a vital hormone, playing an extremely important role in normal metabolic functioning, cortisol has also earned the reputation of being a very dangerous hormone when not properly regulated by the body. It is the outlaw that needs to be reined in and put under strict policing. And since cortisol can wreak havoc on an already compromised...
FDA Approves Two Insulins
by DiabetesCare.net | Oct 6, 2015 | Medicine Cabinet
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has surprised healthcare professionals when it recently announced the approval of both insulin degludec injection (Tresiba) and insulin degludec/insulin aspart injection (Ryzodeg) 70/30. The FDA refused to approve Tresiba and Ryzodeg two years ago, citing concerns about the drugs’ adverse cardiovascular effects....
Finding a Type 1 Management Bridge Until a Cure is Found
by DiabetesCare.net | Oct 2, 2015 | Blogs
While great strides in type 1 diabetes cure research have been made recently, a cure is still not fully realized. Separately, but related to type 1is the progress that has been made within management research, specifically, the development of the artificial pancreas (AP). The AP concept is one that hopefully will bridge the gap for people with type 1 until...
