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1. Could a dog save (your life?) no one knows for sure how they do it, but a growing number of canine companions are helping people with diabetes avoid dangerous hypoglycemia

Author

Spake, Amanda

Subjects
Diabetes -- Care and treatment -- Prevention, Hypoglycemia -- Prevention -- Care and treatment, Food/cooking/nutrition, Health, Care and treatment, Prevention
Abstract

DEVIN GRAYSON'S WORLD WAS SHRINKING. The 36-year-old California comic-book author and video game writer had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 15, and like many people with [...]

Published
2008

2. Symlin up close: how people are benefiting from this injected drug

Author

Spake, Amanda

Subjects
Symlin (Medication) -- Health aspects, Diabetes -- Drug therapy, Hypoglycemic agents -- Health aspects, Food/cooking/nutrition, Health, Drug therapy, Health aspects
Abstract

Shelley Almburg, 49, was first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 16. She uses an insulin pump to maintain her blood glucose. But Almburg was finding that [...]

Published
2008

3. SYMLIN UP CLOSE.

Author

Spake, Amanda

Subjects
*HYPOGLYCEMIC agents, *TYPE 2 diabetes treatment, *TREATMENT of diabetes, *AMYLIN, *BLOOD sugar
Abstract

The article discusses the therapeutic use of the drug Symlin or pramlintide in patients with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Symlin is an injectable synthetic version of the hormone amylin and is prescribed to people with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes who use meal time insulin but who have not achieved adequate blood glucose control. The drug can also be used as a weight-loss drug. Dosing instructions now recommend that Symlin patients take half their mealtime insulin dose to avoid low blood glucose when starting out.

Published
2008

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