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• “A Pig for Every Pancreas” reports on the latest developments in transplanting pig beta cells into people who have diabetes. For this article I interviewed the world’s leaders in this field, New Zealand’s Dr. Bob Elliott, the medical director and cofounder of Living Cell Technologies Ltd.; Dr. Bernard Hering, the scientific director of the Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplanation at the University of Minnesota; Dr. David K.C. Cooper, professor of surgery at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; and others. You can read this article in the July 2007 issue of “Diabetes Wellness News” or online here at http://www.mendosa.com/pigs.htm

• My Diabetes Articles at Health Central
  The Health Central Network hosts my articles about diabetes at http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/17/. This is where you can find most of my new articles.

  The HealthCentral Network continues to get better and better. It will now notified you by email of new articles (SharePosts) by me or anyone who posts at HealthCentral.com. Just click on "Subscribe" wherever you see that button there. The new software also now permits threaded replies to comments. So you will see more replies from me than I have posted since the major site revamp on March 1.

  Each month I describe and link my new Health Central articles here. But you can also use a blog reader to keep up with my articles more quickly. I use Bloglines, as I describe in my article, “Reading Health Blogs.” Go to bloglines.com, click on feeds, click on add, (both in left pane), then in center pane enter at “Blog or Feed URL” click on www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/17/rss/. Alternatively, you can subscribe to my new articles at HealthCentral by taking your browser to http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/17/.

• My New Diabetes Articles for Health Central
  So far I have written more than 180 articles for Health Central about all aspects of diabetes. In June they published 12 of my new diabetes articles:
  1. I is for Insulin. Someday soon we may have generic insulin. But it will still lead to hypos and weight gain.

  2. Avandia and Actos Both Get Black Box Warnings . Taking either Avandia or Actos may be dangerous to your heart, the FDA says now.

  3. J is for Januvia. It may be safe to use Januvia in 2014. But Public Citizen says that it isn’t now.

  4. K is for Ketones. Ketones may be good for you or bad for you. But ketoacidosis is unquestionably bad.

  5. L is for Lazy. Do you give priority to taking care of your body? If you do, you aren’t lazy by my standards.

  6. M is for Mentoring. You can be a mentor about diabetes. All of us is that we can give back to the virtual diabetes community of the Internet. All of us have so much to share. We can be both mentor and mentee as we support each other and make our community so much stronger.

  7. ADA Chicago. As a professional organization the American Diabetes Association does a great service for all of us. The centerpiece of its professional outreach is its annual scientific sessions, which I just returned from in Chicago. The amount of information that came out of this convention is almost overwhelming, including more than 2,000 papers and 1,600 more posters.

  8. Day 2 ADA Chicago: A1C. More than 4,000 exhibitors turned out for this year’s scientific sessions of the American Diabetes Association in Chicago to show off 231 exhibits.The most exciting for me is the exhibit of A1C testing. The booth for the Metrika home A1C test, called the A1CNow, offered us immediate A1C results, and I took advantage of the offer during the second day of the convention.

  9. Day 3 ADA Chicago: Incretins . Novo Nordisk hosted the most powerful presentation of the third day of the American Diabetes Association convention in Chicago, an interactive discussion about the incretins, which include the GLP-1 mimetics and the DPP-4 inhibitors. These are the two newest classes of diabetes drugs. Only one drug in each class is available yet: Byetta is the first GLP-1, and Januvia is the first DPP-4.

  10. Day 4 ADA Chicago: Oral GLP-1. A late breaking abstract at the American Diabetes Association’s annual convention made the exciting announcement that a pill form of GLP-1 (like Byetta) may be coming.

  11. Byetta for the Heart . Taking Byetta can reduce our risk of heart attacks and strokes, the most common and deadly complications of diabetes.This was the main conclusion of a presentation at the American Diabetes Association’s scientific sessions in Chicago.

  12. Short-Acting Insulin Isn’t Short for Most Type 2s . If you take large doses of one of the rapid-acting insulins, it may take three times longer to work for you than the pharmaceutical companies say that it does. That could lead to a serious mismatch in your insulin and glucose peaks. This is the conclusion of a late-breaking abstract presented at the American Diabetes Association’s scientific sessions in Chicago.

The New Glucose Revolution for Diabetes
The latest and most relevant glycemic index book

• For a dozen years I have been writing about the glycemic index. Now, here is finally a book about the GI specifically for those of us who need it the most  —  people with diabetes. We need to know about it more than anyone else. With The New Glucose Revolution for Diabetes, Jennie Brand-Miller and her associate give us here what we must have to control our diabetes, rather than letting it control our lives.

  This new book is a worthy addition to the short list of valuable books for people diagnosed with diabetes. Those are the books are Gretchen Becker, The First Year Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed, and Alan L. Rubin, Diabetes for Dummies.

  Marlowe and Company, the largest independent publisher of books about diabetes, just published this 490 page book in softcover for $16.95. Marlowe is an imprint of Avalon Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 978-1-56924-307-7; the ISBN-10 is 1-56924-307-7.

• Sue Ganz-Schmitt’s new book, Even Superheroes Get Diabetes focuses on the gift within the illness. Sue searched for a children’s book about diabetes but found none that matched a path of empowerment. So she sat down and wrote this book.

  Dog Ear Publishing in Indianapolis, Indiana just published this book, and it is available at http://www.evensuperheroes.com/ and other online retailers. This 36-page perfect bound softcover book is available for $16.95. The ISBN-13 is 978-1-59858-302-1.

Glycemic Density:

• Rich Price has developed an interesting extension of the glycemic index. He calls it the “The Glycemic Density.” It is a listing of foods that provide the most hunger satisfaction with the least glycemic impact. He offers it at no charge, and his 23-page PDF is online at http://www.mendosa/glycemic_density.pdf

• LifeScan now offers its OneTouch UltraMini blood glucose meter in four colors —  silver moon, limelight, pink glow, and black. I think that it’s the first meter company to use color. And it could be because of the prompting of one of my correspondents, a teacher named Marcia Boone. I passed on her suggestion to the company last year, and now they have acted on it. “I hope that a lot of teens will be encouraged to test more often,” Marcia writes me now. “Perhaps they will not slink around at school to test. A bright color might mean they will test as needed.”

Face of Change:

• You can be a “face of change.” And Novo Nordisk wants a famous photographer to shoot you. Novo is soliciting submissions from people with type 2 diabetes. You can send in your own photos and share your personal diabetes success story via the exhibit website. The deadline for submissions is August 30.

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