Category: Diabetes Management

Expanded CGM Coverage Available for New Brunswickers 

New Brunswick Insulin Pump Program expanded its CGM coverage to eligible diabetes patients. Here's what you need to know!

Using My Passion for Health and Wellness to Adjust to Life With Type 2 Diabetes

Learn about Ria’s story and how her passion for health and wellness helped her adjust to life with type 2 diabetes. 

Is Excess Weight Making Your Type 2 Diabetes Worse? 

Why are people with type 2 diabetes told to lose weight? Here’s why some doctors recommend it.

What is Gestational Diabetes?

Gestational diabetes is a form of diabetes that causes high blood glucose during pregnancy. As rates of type 2 diabetes increase worldwide, so do rates of gestational diabetes.

Pregnancy and Type 2 Diabetes

Getting ready for your new baby

How To Get Started With Your Diabetes Self-Management

Learning to manage type 2 diabetes can be intimidating. Putting together a care team and getting basic supplies is a great first step.

It’s Time to Reframe the Conversation Around Diabetes Complications

Diabetes complications are no one’s fault. The stigma around diabetes complications hurts everyone living with or affected by T2D.

Blood Pressure in Type 2 Diabetes Management

Watching your blood pressure is one of the many ways to reduce your risks of cardiovascular disease.

HCP’s Perspective on Diabetes Success: Learn to Celebrate the Small Wins

Quisha Umemba RN, CDCES, CHWI shares thoughts on how success w/ type 2 diabetes is more than about A1C and how to celebrate the small wins.

Blood Glucose Meter Rundown

We all know what diabetes can do: wreck havoc on our nerves, eyes, heart, blood vessels and kidneys. And we all know what we need to do: know our numbers and keep them in safe ranges. In order to acco...