Man, there’s been an amazing amount of buzz and excitement over new stem cell research out of Brazil that may “rein in Type 1 diabetes.” By injecting 15 patients with their own stem cells, researchers were able to get these people off insulin entirely without any major negative side effects — so far.
Luminaries are quoted as saying that this exciting new treatment “is a big deal,” but the follow-up section in the LA Times…
Friends, I am absolutely giddy over all the discussion spurred by yesterday’s Open Letter to Steve Jobs. The idea was to push the issue of medical device design vs. consumer “lifestyle” design to the forefront, i.e. raise a red flag to the tech-design community that can help us, and get people people talking. I’d say we accomplished that with flying colors. Michael Arrington’s post over at TechCrunch resonated throughout the blogosphere.
There were those who…
Big news this week, Folks. Apple Inc. has sold its 100-Millionth iPod. Ah, those perfectly aesthetic little high-tech devices for enjoying your music, yes. Which gives me an idea… Why, oh why, do consumers everywhere get the most “insanely great” little MP3 player, while we whose lives depend on medical devices get the clunky stuff of yesteryear? It occured to me that this is never going to change unless we call on the Gods of…
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Happy Spring, All! If you’re reading this, you’ve survived this year’s second annual Sugar Fest (Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween), so congratulations. And now for an update on some stuff that might interest you, on and offline:
ON THE WEB:
* The “Patient Empowerment Movement” has a new champion? At least that’s the sense you get at Kevin J. Leonard’s Patient Destiny blog. Kevin is an associate professor of medicine at University of Toronto, working to…
Marie Dysli lives in Switzerland. She is young, beautiful, diabetic, and miserable. Last week, she emailed me her story, asking me to share it with the D-community. “I hope this will help other diabetics and make them feel less monster-like, as I thought I was by combining diabetes, depression and eating disorder,” she writes. Prepare yourself for some alarming honesty:
I’m twenty-one years old and was diagnosed with diabetes type 1 thirteen years ago.…
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