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Managing Diabetes During the Holiday Season

With all the delicious treats available over the holidays, it can be challenging to control your blood glucose as someone with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Add in traveling for the holidays, as many people do, and the situation becomes even harder to manage. However, with careful preparation and...

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Medical ID Bracelets for Diabetes: The Ultimate Guide

Living with diabetes requires careful management and constant awareness of one’s health condition. For individuals with diabetes, wearing a medical ID bracelet can be a life-saving decision. These simple, yet powerful accessories provide essential information about the wearer’s diabetes status to...

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Diabetes Recipe: Dave’s At-Home Creamy Latte

It is a common misconception that diabetics can’t enjoy normal foods, just like everybody else. Type 1 Diabetes advocate and influencer David Mina (also known as Type1livabetic on Instagram) has helped to dispel any false notions with his recently launched cookbook on what diabetics can eat....

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Coronavirus Checklist for People with Medical Conditions

Older adults and people of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions might be at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19. Some of these medical conditions include heart disease, diabetes, asthma, lung conditions or disease, and HIV. For anyone living with health issues, the impact...

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Diabetes Alert Day 2020: A Wake-Up Call on Type 2 Diabetes

March 24, 2020, is American Diabetes Association Alert Day. It is an important day for raising awareness of type 2 diabetes and in encouraging the public to take the Diabetes Risk Test. This test only takes 60 seconds to complete and can instantly tell users if they’re at risk of type 2 diabetes....

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Over 100 Homeless Veterans Receive a Personalized Medical ID at Houston Stand Down Event

American Medical ID is proud and honored to be one of the corporate volunteer groups that participated in the 25th Houston Stand Down event. This initiative has been supporting our homeless and at-risk Veterans since 1993. The term “stand down” refers to the brief period of time a soldier leaves an...

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5 Tips for Managing Diabetes

If you’ve just been newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes or have been living with type 2 diabetes for years, it’s not always easy to stay on top of your diabetes management. You know that diabetes is not a simple condition: your blood glucose levels can go up and down, you have to guess how much...

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Holiday & Travel Safety with Medical IDs

The holiday season is among the busiest travel periods of the year. A breaking number of 107.3 million Americans are expected to travel from December 23 in time for Christmas and to January 1 to spend New Year's Day with family and friends. Whether you’re traveling by car or plane, your safety is...

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Best Stylish Accessories for Managing Diabetes

Diabetes is a 24/7 condition. It can easily become all-consuming but Paloma Kemak, (or Glitter Glucose as she’s known in the diabetes world) is here to share some of her favorite accessories to help avoid getting stuck in a diabetes rut. There is nothing glamorous about diabetes itself but here are...

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Diabetes-Friendly Fun and Education at the ADA Expo

The American Diabetes Association invites you to join them at their annual Health and Wellness Expo on April 8th, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. This event is FREE and promises lots of fun, games and diabetes education for the entire family! This year, American Medical ID has donated over 200 diabetes...

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Free IDs for Kids at Kay Mackenson Clinic in Haiti

Inspired by their adoptive son's diabetes diagnosis, Drs. Rick and Wendy Bonnell established Kay Mackenson Clinic in Haiti in 2012 with partners Dr. Chris and Lisa Carpenter. A nonprofit organization, the clinic provides comprehensive medical care to disadvantaged Haitian children who live with...

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Ryan Reed to Compete in the Drive to Stop Diabetes 300 presented by Lilly Diabetes

Ryan Reed will compete in this Saturday's (March 15th) Drive to Stop Diabetes 300 race at Bristol Motor Speedway (BMS). This marks the second NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start at this track for him. Reed will be driving the No. 16 American Diabetes Association Drive to Stop...