CWD News
Sick Day Guidelines 2023
Now that we have all emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are rebuilding our immune system. This means we are catching all the germs our kids are bringing home from school, our coworkers are bringing into work, and whatever else our body catches. Since we were all isolated for so long, a lot […]
CWD’s 2022 Annual Report
We are happy to present the 2022 Children with Diabetes Annual Report. After two years of pandemic-induced isolation, we finally closed our Zoom apps, turned off our desktop cameras and lights, dusted off luggage, booked airplane tickets, made hotel reservations, and returned to traveling to Friends for Life conferences and professional diabetes meetings throughout the world. […]
What are Biosimilar Insulins?
“Wow! Look! They gave me six vials of insulin! FOR FREE! I paid nothing!” I vividly remember the first time in my adult life that I didn’t have to worry about the amount of insulin I had through my insurance. I came home and told my husband that. His reply was so poignant and true, […]
Diabetes on the Spectrum
What do you do when your Type One is also Type Au-Some? I mean, we are all awesome, right? But, what do you do if you have neurodiversity in addition to type one diabetes? April is Autism Acceptance Month and at Children with Diabetes, people with neurodiversity and autism (or other forms of neurodiversity) are […]
Do you Gluroo?
When Greg Badros’s son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, his family quickly embraced diabetes technology, including a CGM and mobile apps. But what they found is that they didn’t have a good way of tracking multiple diabetes devices’ data with multiple caregivers. Luckily for other parents and loved ones of people with diabetes, Greg […]
Friends for Life Seattle 2023 Recap
You’re going to have to slow down! I shouted this phrase while basically jogging behind my Children with Diabetes staff colleagues as we walked down the steep streets of Seattle. Slow down! It’s ironic, actually, because for the last several weeks, all that I’ve wanted is for time to speed up so that we could […]
Latest Research on Women with Diabetes
Did you know that women and girls have been repeatedly excluded from research throughout history? In fact, after thousands of babies were born with severe birth defects from a medication for morning sickness, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) banned women from participating in research if they were able to get pregnant.1 It’s understandable to want […]
Guten Tag from the Children with Diabetes Team
Guten Tag from the Children with Diabetes team! Last week, a small, but mighty group of CWD staff members grabbed our passports, packed our bags, and headed off to Berlin, Germany for the 16th International Conference on Advanced Technologies and Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD). As your personal tour guide to this event, I’m here to […]
Black History and Diabetes
Although there has been an uptick in reporting about racial and ethnic health disparities, the phenomenon is not new. As author Arleen Tuchman describes in her book, Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease, there is a long history of the medical field believing that there are biological differences between different races. This belief that […]
Bumping While Pumping
Let’s talk about it Whether you feel comfortable talking about it or not, sex is a normal part of life. That’s right; we’re talking about sexual intimacy because, as usual, diabetes makes things more complicated. The key to ensuring healthy sexual intimacy with diabetes is honest communication. This can seem intimidating when you are in […]