Is it OK for patients to chatter away about their doctors online, while those doctors remain under oath not to disclose patient information? And yet, some doctors do blog about interactions with their patients.
Last Friday, I was a guest on a Podcast hosted by Albert Maruggi, creator of the Social Media Throwdown series, on this topic. I was there to discuss the value of patients sharing their experiences online. The counterpoint was brought by…
The folks at Insulet have very generously shipped me out an advance unit of their new color PDM. (I guess they just knew I’d be first on the upgrade list, and wouldn’t stop pestering them ’til I got one pronto.) I fired mine up last Wednesday afternoon, and have been happily playing with it since. Here’s are my impressions so far:
SIZE & SHAPE
The squared-off shape makes it feel more compact, although the unit…
Have you also long been in search of a pack you can strap on during exercise that will actually hold the essentials you need for your diabetes? Hold your stuff in place, I mean, without bouncing? It seems someone finally invented one, and I kid you not, there’s practically nothing to it — just a slip of expandable fabric in the middle.
The Spibelt (Small Personal Items belt) was invented by a woman named Kim…
There are so many fascinating diabetes- and health-related events taking place all around the country; I wish I could go to them all! But thankfully, sometimes I can cover them in absentia here at the ‘Mine with a little help from my friends.
A guest post by Allison Blass
Last week, I was invited to attend the New York Stem Cell Foundation’s panel entitled “Stem Cell Research & Diabetes: Realizing the Promise.” As you can…
I’ve been up to my ears in sorting and cataloging the abundant entries we received for this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge, which closed for submissions last Friday. So much so that I haven’t had time to think about — or write about — much else. A quick numerical overview of the outpouring of creativity we’ve seen:
152 = total number of contest submissions received this year, once all the ‘outliers’ were properly located (some weren’t…