Just for fun, I recently requested a review copy of Sue Marshall’s new book, “Diabetes: The Essential Guide” out of the UK. I read it on the plane to Boston on my birthday late last month. (Really, is this what I do for fun? Time to get a life?)
I’ve long been an admirer of Sue, who’s had type 1 diabetes for 35 years and had a 20-year career in journalism before she launched Desang,…
We knew it was coming, but Insulet Corp. has been very tight-lipped about their new color-screen PDM (controller unit) for the OmniPod wireless pumping system. Well, off a tip from a reader I’ve discovered the new unit is available for pre-order starting today — and it’s looking good.
Reader Eric R. writes:
My local rep had plenty of details to share, but to me the highlights are:
1) Color screen
2) New companion software (for…
(To be fair, Diabetes Health magazine beat me to this topic with some good tips last week. Below is my 2 cents)
Everywhere we turn at the moment, we see breaking news about the swine flu that has infected thousands in Mexico and has made its way into the United States and Europe. As of April 29, the World Health Organization raised the worldwide pandemic alert level to Phase 5, which means “strong signal that…
We are positively blown away: in the (nearly) final analysis, we’ve logged over 130 entries in the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. There goes my weekend…
Seriously, I want to thank each and every individual who helped with this project — including everyone who sent us their hard-won innovative concepts for improving life with this illness. This is crowdsourcing at its very best, so THANK YOU!
And now back to reviewing entries… Oh, and you can…
Today is the final day to enter the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. You have until 11:59pm Pacific time to submit your brilliant idea for a new device or web tool to make life with diabetes better.
We have a great batch of tantalizing new concepts coming in…
See the video entries to date here:
http://www.youtube.com/group/DBMine2009Contest
and the
paper entries to date here:
http://www.scribd.com/group/71420-2009-diabetesmine-design-challenge
ENTER THE CONTEST here.
Meet our judges by reading their interviews…