I’ve been to a bunch of “Health 2.0″ events in which the question inevitably came up: does all this online stuff really have the potential to improve people’s health? Well yes, was my response, because we don’t just use to it chat, but also to motivate each other and even create campaigns and contests for tangible changes like weight loss, fitness, and lowering your A1c.
These kind of online health challenges are really catching on,…
My friend and periodic contributor Allison Blass is tired of blogging about diabetes. She announced this last week, and she worries about keeping her readers’ interest as her blog “will start to look like a blog about Allison, who happens to have diabetes, rather than a blog about diabetes, which happens to be written by Allison.” The reason I am posting about this is that Allison got me thinking (again) about the balance between focusing on…
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Next week I’ll be hosting Grand Rounds here at DiabetesMine. That’s the weekly roundup of happenings in the medical and health blogosphere, now organized by Dr. Val and team over at GetBetterHealth.
As it happens, next Tuesday April 21 is my birthday (how did I get hoodwinked into this timing?) So the theme was obvious: I’m favoring any and all posts having to do with birthdays and special occasions — or anything that smacks of…
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has devoted an entire special issue to Diabetes this week. It features the results of four big studies that are enlightening, but are not going to make you happy.
The first comes from Kaiser Permanente, and shows that in elderly people with Type 2 diabetes, severe hypoglycemia is closely linked to dementia. That is, the study showed that patients experiencing just one single severe bout of low…
A few days ago I got an email alert from a company called MedApps that claims it’s unveiling the world’s first affordable and reliable mobile health monitoring system at the upcoming American Telemedicine Association conference in Las Vegas, April 26-28. And what functionality are they previewing? A system for remote upload of glucose data, of course.
I just bet, knowing how prevalent (and profitable) diabetes is, that the ATA event will be positively riddled with…