Happy Halloween
Looking for last minute ideas to make your Halloween fun and diabetes-friendly? Visit dLife's Halloween Central and browse our spooktacular resources. While you're there, take the Click-or-Treat quiz to see if you're ready for a scary, safe time tonight.
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Flu Season Begins
You know it's that time of the year when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control starts up their weekly influenza surveillance reports. We're in week two now - take a look at the CDC influenza activity map to see how the flu is hitting your area.
Remember, people with diabetes are at high risk for complications from the flu, so getting your flu shot early is important. And if you do get sick, make sure you know how to take care of your diabetes during an illness.
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Scary Potter's Broomstick Bash!
Looking for a fun, Halloween-themed event? DIVAbetic and the POWER Group present Scary Potter's Broomstick Bash!
When: Friday, October 26, 3:30-6 PM
Where: The Annenberg Building, Main Lobby in the Mount Sinai Medical Center
This free diabetes outreach 'Healthy Halloween' event features interactive education, face painting, karate demonstrations, goal setting tips, costume cardio contest, parent support and mask and broomstick decorating contests for kids affected by diabetes and their families. Learn how to stay healthy and upbeat about diabetes self-care throughout the holidays. Free giveaways and Nickelodeon prizes for contest winners. Presented by the POWER Group (Hall Family Center for Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology) and DIVABETIC.
Sponsored by Novo Nordisk. Register now: 212-241-8727
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A Year of Diabetes
Diabetes 365 is a collaborative photo project that illustrates daily life with diabetes. Project contributors commit to adding a photo a day for one year. Although it's only been operational for less than two weeks, the project already has already collected over 100 images.
As blogger and Diabetes 365 administrator Bernard notes over on Blogabetes, "I think one of the nice things that might come out of it is a better understanding about life with diabetes, especially for anyone who DOESN'T have it."
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Pfizer Drops Exubera
Since its market release in early 2006, Exubera has faced an uphill battle winning widespread physician and consumer adaption. Now, manufacturer Pfizer has decided to pull the product from its portfolio. From Pfizer's third quarter earnings release yesterday:
"[W]e made an important decision regarding Exubera, a product for which we initially had high expectations,” said Jeff Kindler, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “Despite our best efforts, Exubera has failed to gain the acceptance of patients and physicians. We have therefore concluded that further investment in this product is unwarranted.”We will work with physicians to transition Exubera patients to other treatment options in the next three months. We remain committed to investing significant resources in the development of new and innovative medicines to manage diabetes, including monitoring inhalation technologies and other innovative delivery systems for insulin and other medicines.”
RELATED: Inhaled Insulin
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Ron Santo Walk
Today was the annual Ron Santo Walk to Cure Diabetes in Chicago, and thousands turned out to support the fundraising effort. The walk, which is in its twenty-ninth year, was started by the former Chicago Cubs third baseman to support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's search for a cure.
RELATED: Watch Ron Santo on dLifeTV
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Getting Ready for Halloween Fun With Diabetes
For parents of kids with diabetes, Halloween can be a real test of will and spirit. Sending your child off to trick or treat may feel a bit like letting Augustus Gloop loose in Willy Wonka's famed factory -- floating up the chocolate river without a paddle. But with a little preparation, you and your children can have a safe and happy Halloween. Find out how to prepare for Halloween fun, now!
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Taste of Blogabetes
Have you been over to Blogabetes lately? If you haven't, we invite you to stop by and sample some of the best daily diabetes writing on the web. You'll find funny and poignant accounts of life with diabetes from award winning authors and popular d-bloggers - and they're waiting for you to ask questions and leave comments. Stop by and join the conversation!
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Side-by-Side on Diabetes
The American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) has entered the blogosphere with their new Side by Side blog.
Written by three seasoned diabetes educators, it's a good place for patients to pick up practical tips and keep up on standards of care.
RELATED: The 7 Self-Care Habits of Good Diabetes Care
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