I love dressing up in costumes, and the whole aura of Halloween festivities.  But I don’t need to remind you fellow PWDs why this holiday is really scary: it’s the #$%@ high-fructose-corn-syrup-laden store-bought candies, that’s what. They’re everywhere at this time of year, just begging to be eaten.
As author and advocate Laura Plunkett (mother of [...]

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People touched by diabetes everywhere want Google’s help!  We’re working fastidiously to gather signatures for a grassroots campaign to get the web search magnate to display a special decorative “doodle” on its home page to mark World Diabetes Day, coming up Nov. 14.  But despite nearly 10,000 signatures gathered already — and the fact that [...]

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I met Alexis at the recent BDI luncheon for women with Type 1 diabetes. She seemed bubbly and smart, and I felt an instant connection.  When I discovered her job title was “Compliance Analyst,” I just had to hear more about that.  Turns out it’s not quite what you think, but fascinating nevertheless.
A Guest Post [...]

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In between the D-blogger meetup and all the other great sessions at the Diabetes Research Institute’s annual conference on Saturday, I popped into David Weingard’s session on Diabetes and Exercise.
David and his wife run Fit4D, a New-York based “personalized diabetes coaching” service that recently announced a partnership with Bayer. “Fit4D coaches provide you with continuous [...]

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My mom’s been complaining that my latest posts have been too long. So I’m attempting to keep this one brief — despite the humongously eventful week I have behind me.
Extremely Brief Notes on Health 2.0
The second annual Health 2.0 Conference here in San Francisco was huge, up to nearly a thousand attendees from just half [...]

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