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  • 1 week ago | lamag.com | Ryan Ritchie

    This weekend was perfect for day drinking. Sunday’s temperature reached 68 degrees, so I asked my friend Brian Hendon, 46, if he wanted to get wasted. Naturally, he obliged, but we had a problem — neither of us consumes alcohol anymore. Type 1 diabetes means everything I eat is trying to kill me, so I decided to eschew alcohol in 2020 for approximately a month to improve my health. Then COVID-19 happened. Five years later, and I haven’t had a drink.

  • 1 month ago | kevinmd.com | Ryan Ritchie |Gary Rothenberg |Jennifer Jonsson

    Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Board-certified pediatric endocrinologist, field medical director for type 1 diabetes immunology (T1D) at Sanofi, and T1D survivor Shara Bialo discusses the article, “Improving type 1 diabetes screening awareness among women is critical.

  • Oct 28, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Najeeb Ashraf |Ryan Ritchie |Gary Rothenberg |Jennifer Jonsson

    I was only a child when my life took a sharp turn. At around five or six years old, I started noticing odd changes in my body that I didn’t understand. The day I landed in the hospital was the day the word “diabetes” entered my life, even though I didn’t know what it meant. I overheard my father telling my mother about my diagnosis, but all I could follow was that a few injections would make me feel better.

  • Jul 12, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Ryan Ritchie |Jennifer Jonsson |Deepak Gupta

    Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Join us as we sit down with writer Robin D’Amato to discuss her book, Sugar-Free. Robin delves into the inspiring journey of Ginny Eastman, a girl whose passion for basketball begins at six years old despite her battle with juvenile diabetes. We’ll explore how Ginny overcomes physical and societal challenges, the importance of lifelong friendships, and the impact of historical changes on her life.

  • Jul 9, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Deepak Gupta |Jennifer Roelands |Ryan Ritchie |L. Joseph Parker

    Since the United States Food and Drug Administration approved exenatide in 2005, it took decades for the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) to identify and address perioperative safety concerns, if any, among patients using glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) such as exenatide. This delay could be due to several factors: GLP-1 RAs were initially used only for managing diabetes and later for obesity, and now potentially for a wide range of conditions.

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Ryan Ritchie
Ryan Ritchie @RyanLRitchie
18 Apr 25

I had 15 non-alcoholic drinks and two kava gummies for a @LAmag story, which made me "sober wasted." https://t.co/v4Cm6r7KCT

Ryan Ritchie
Ryan Ritchie @RyanLRitchie
18 Feb 25

I had three poems published by Literary Veganism. One poem is about a spider. The other two poems, naturally, are about cats. https://t.co/OKh2Teqjyw

Ryan Ritchie
Ryan Ritchie @RyanLRitchie
16 Sep 24

Do you want to read about the time I got roofied in #Tokyo? If so, you are in luck because I have a story in @ribshots' new book Hell On Wheels - Revised on @UHellPress, which features stories by @Jello_Biafra_, @swamijohnreis, @EerieVon777 and many more. https://t.co/8ZH0h65gJE