Riva Greenberg

Traditionally pharma and medical device companies design health tools for health care professionals and in clinical settings. What's been missing is any thought about the end user: the patient.

Even with Silicon Valley recently jumping on the "wellness bandwagon," pumping out new mobile health apps at the...

No, I'm not going to give you the typical symptoms like thirst, peeing a lot, losing weight, blurry vision and fatigue. I'm going to give you my 10 ways I know I have diabetes. Those 10 things I find myself doing only because I have diabetes.

1. I find...

This is part two of my conversation with Dr. Ann Albright, director of the Division of Diabetes Translation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In part one Albright talks about meeting the challenges...

Last year Dr. Ann Albright was the closing speaker at Diabetes Sister's "Weekend for Women." Albright is the director of the Division of Diabetes Translation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

On Feb. 18 I moderated the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Capitol Chapter's second annual Research Summit on Type 1 Diabetes.

My first question when I got the call to moderate was, "Why me?" (Not unlike the response I had to my diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes 40...

An unexpected diagnosis

7:08 a.m. -- 56 mg/dl (3.1 mmol/l)

I don't know the date I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, as so many of my peers do. But I do know this month marks my 40th year with diabetes.

I got it when I was 18 in...

It's hard to condense 300 pages into one, but since I believe in the value of small steps, here are seven small but mighty "Tips to Make You Tops" from my book, 50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life and the 50 Diabetes Truths That Can Save...

Derek Yach is a physician, epidemiologist and Senior Vice President of Global Health and Agriculture Policy at PepsiCo.

The first part of my interview with Yach talked about global health and how we need to change our agricultural policies and work more closely with farmers.

I heard Derek Yach speak at Albert Einstein's Global Diabetes Summit last September. He presented a case to curb obesity, hunger and diabetes that we don't often hear: turn our agricultural policies around and work more closely with...

This is the second part of my interview with leading diabetologist, Professor Itamar Raz. Raz is the director of the Hadassah University Hospital's diabetes unit and one of the world's leading researchers and clinicians in diabetes.

In addition to...

Forty years ago I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I was told -- as we all were -- that the cure was five to 10 years away. There still is no cure, but I just interviewed the man who may be a breath away from preventing type 1 diabetes.

The blogosphere was thrumming about whether the Food Network's down-home Southern queen, Paula Deen, has Type 2 diabetes. Yes, by now you know she does.

It doesn't bother me that she kept it "close to my chest" as she announced on the Today Show to Al Roker....

In the movie, "The Bucket List," Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, both dying, create a wish list of things to do before they die -- their "bucket list." I got to thinking, why not create a list of what's in my bucket now, rather than what I still want to...

My Sweet Life: Successful Women with Diabetes is a heartfelt and inside view of 24 women's lives. Women, who have each found a way to successfully manage a career and/or their family and their diabetes.

The book's publication...

"Today 366 million people have diabetes. At a conservative estimate there must then be 1 billion people who either have diabetes or live with someone who does," said Professor Jean Claude Mbanya, President of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF).

Dignitaries at IDF...

In only four years Brandy Barnes has created something unique in diabetes, yet one quickly thinks, "Why didn't someone think of this before?"

Brandy is the founder of Diabetes Sisters (DS), a website solely devoted to supporting, educating, and...

Earlier this month Sharecare Now -- a new service (under Sharecare) that conducts in-depth analyses of health and wellness conversations online -- named the top 10 influencers in the online diabetes community.

I'm proud to be recognized for my writing here at The...

This is not a story about statistics, yet I have to start there. It is not a story about a shocking ad that ran in the New York Times and Washington Post, yet the uproar started there.

This is the story of how approximately

I'm calling everyone with diabetes -- and I'm asking you to call everyone you know -- to do something between now and Nov. 14: World Diabetes Day.

By doing what I ask you may save your own life, and together, we'll be saving the lives of thousands of people...

Barbara Anderson, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and professor of pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine, a premier academic health science center in Houston. She is the recipient of the 2003 American Diabetes Association's (ADA) "Outstanding Educator in Diabetes" award and her distinguished career includes work at...