Maybe that isn’t the most politically correct title for this post; I should grow up and say “women’s issues,” right? Naw. Just like any formerly repressed group, we get to refer to ourselves any way we want. And a girl might just change her mind, you know
I’ve been feeling especially frustrated with all the “complications” of being a woman lately (and not just at that time of the month!*) Did you know, for starters,…
Halloween is on its way, and of course, we PWDs are bracing ourselves for all that candy — in your face. It ain’t easy to resist, even if you’re not normally tempted, because suddenly there are the bowls-full of the stuff at home and work, at the mall and at the dentist’s office. Yipes!
I noticed some chatter about how it might be good to swear off candy altogether, or to stick to the sugar free…
Academic and medical journals — yawn, right? Not anymore. Today (at the Connected Health conference in Boston) marks the launch of a new kind of journal, which is marking a new kind of medicine, actually: the Journal of Participatory Medicine, an all-online pub that’s open and free-of-charge for all to read and enjoy.
The content, which will eventually include video clips and other multimedia stuff, is entirely dedicated to the ways in which patients are…
I was tempted to call this post, “I’m better in writing.”
I really don’t like seeing myself on film. But I know, it’s time to get with the program. That, and the American Heart Association provided the members of its Heart of Diabetes Connected Council group with free Flip video recorders – pretty cool!
See Scott Johnson’s vlog-’splanation here. See also Scott’s disclaimer* below, which I have borrowed unabashedly.
* Disclosure: In return for my…
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Some people were surprised recently to hear me say that tools for logging glucose are “not the Holy Grail of online diabetes tools.” I stand by that assertion, and I’m going to tell you why.
There are an ever-increasing number of PC and phone-based programs that allow diabetics to log and share their BG data. While this can be useful for some, there are several shortcomings for the general PWD population, the way I see…