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Of Continuing Interest

• Diabetes Management at School provides detailed instructions and forms to help your child at school.

• Join us for a special chat session on diabetes at school on Monday, August 16, at 9:00 pm Eastern Time, hosted by diabetes nurse specialist Steph Schwartz.

New This Week

• John Raztenberger offers a new Message From the Chairman.

• Graham is five years old and lives in Ontario, Canada.

• Jessica, age 17, has Cerebral Palsy and her mom has diabetes.

• Austin is almost four and has a new baby brother.

• Bretton is three-and-a-half and was diagnosed when he was two.

• Parents of Teens with Diabetes is a new e-mail support list for parents of teenagers with diabetes.

• Humalog Reduces Hypoglycaemic Reactions In Younger Diabetics.

• Oral bedtime cornstarch supplementation reduces the risk for nocturnal hypoglycaemia in young children with type 1 diabetes.

• Substitution of night-time continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion therapy for bedtime NPH insulin in a multiple injection regimen improves counterregulatory hormonal responses and warning symptoms of hypoglycaemia in IDDM.

• German BABYDIAB study finds early expression and high prevalence of islet autoantibodies for DR3/4 heterozygous and DR4/4 homozygous offspring of parents with Type I diabetes.

• Perinatal and neonatal determinants of childhood type 1 diabetes showed that neonatal illnesses increased and initial breast feeding decreased the risk of childhood type 1 diabetes.

• Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY): a new challenge for pediatric diabetologists.

• Small, Convenient and Flexible, Insulin Pumps Catch On, reports The New York Times. (Free Registration Required)

• Month of Birth Affects Risk of Childhood-Onset Diabetes. (Free Registration Required)

• The American Diabetes Association is running a poll about experiences with diabetes-related discrimination.

• Procter & Gamble September promotion benefits JDF.

• DiabetesManager 2.00 is a diabetes management software system for PSION handheld computers.

• WatchMinder is a reminder watch to assist people with diabetes. It has 16 programmable alarms that display eight character reminders.

• Advantage International USA, Inc. sells xylitol sweetener, as well as mints and gum sweetened with xylitol.

• Last week's poll asked readers how they stop their finger from bleeding after a blood test. This week's poll asks readers what the upper limit of their target blood sugar range is.

• The Featured Book of the Week is Convenience Food Facts by Arlene Monk, RD, LD, CDE, and Nancy Cooper, RD, LD, CDE.

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