Following on my review of the year in diabetes, I’ve been reflecting on what marked 2008 here at DiabetesMine.com. I realized that 2008 was quite an eventful year over here, both for me personally and news-wise. Here’s a list of some key milestones here at the Mine:
January – I was featured in Newsweek! And we learned that diabetes costs America more than the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and the global war on terrorism combined.…
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The questions portion of the DiabetesMine Holiday Survival Sweepstakes has come to an end. Next Tuesday we will announce the Grand Prize drawing winners! Which means I’m writing every winner’s name on a piece of paper and literally throwing ‘em into a hat for random selection by one of my little girls.
This week, we had some excellent tips on offsetting the stress of the holidays. Overall, I’d say the strategies concentrated on planning ahead,…
It’s that time again. Another year has passed, and one can’t help wondering: was there any significant progress made in the diabetes world? I guess if you only count “progess” as steps towards a cure, that’s a difficult question to answer. For what it’s worth, here’s my own list of milestone events that occurred this year:
♦ The ACCORD study results were announced, and interpreted to sound like tight blood glucose control might kill you…
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Just about 5 shopping days left until Christmas! And Hanukkah? Forget it. It starts this Sunday evening at sundown, so if you’re not shopped up and wrapped up by now, you are in some deep egg nog.
Holiday stress getting to you yet? Great. Share your coping techniques here — your very last chance to enter the DiabetesMine HOLIDAY SURVIVAL SWEEPSTAKES this year.
i.e. this week’s question:
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When former “Good Morning America” anchor Joan Lunden, who is now a paid spokeswoman for PassportMD, was recently interviewed by ABC News about “the new world of online medical records, one of the first things she said was: “Ten years from now we’ll laugh that we were even having this conversation, because everybody will keep their family’s health records online.”
The way things are going — with nearly every other aspect of our lives now…