"What a wonderful book! Diabetes can feel confusing and overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be — especially thanks to books like this."
— Dr. William Polonsky
author of Diabetes Burnout
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to meet with the legendary Dr. Denise Faustman for a latte and a long talk last week in Boston. While I expected her to be smart as a whip, what I didn’t expect was the bubbly personality. She has an infectious giggle and a glimmer in her eyes [...]
We bloggers and social network afficionados have been calling for the medical establishment to wake up and smell the Java, and recognize that we patients have a new place to congregate and a new communal voice on the web. Why don’t they recognize us and engage with us, we ask?
Well now I know that at [...]
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Traditionally, a “prescription” meant a piece of paper that got you a vial of pills or other medication you were meant to take until your next meeting with your doctor. Today, health professionals increasingly recognize that LEARNING is part of the prescription -– if you want people to thrive with their condition, that is.
The Health [...]
IDEO is the world-renown design firm that transformed Kaiser Permanente’s modus operandi. They made the cover of BusinessWeek a few years ago. They’ve won scores of design competitions themselves.
So needless to say, we’re delighted to have them on board for the DiabetesMine Design Challenge, open for submissions until May 1, 2009 (so get movin’!). IDEO [...]
Last week, diabetes industry analyst David Kliff sent out an update to his subscribers claiming that Abbott Diabetes will soon be dropping the Navigator Continuous Glucose Monitoring System. Instead, Kliff says they’ll be entering the insulin pump market with a new product called the Aviator — the pump that they originally intended to pair with [...]
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