We often forget to be grateful for the little things, I think. In the Sixties, remembering to do this was called “stop and smell the flowers.” We rarely do that nowadays. I’m not talking about praising locomotion or penicillin here — nothing that moves the masses or revolutionizes public health. Rather, the more trivial, ‘minor inventions’ that make life just a little bit better.
Here are my Top 10 at the moment, in no particular…
Most of us have, at some point in our lives, an ‘aha’ moment in which our health springs forward from the far, far back burner and suddenly sits at the top of the priority list. For Brian Harris, that moment was a sudden heart attack at the age of 33. After waking up in the cardiac care unit, he discovered he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Through the online diabetes grapevine, Brian submitted his…
Do your hands go numb or turn blue sometimes? Especially now that the weather’s turning colder? I received this message from a reader not long ago, which reminded me of yet another add-on ailment I haven’t addressed in a while:
I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes a little more than 3 1/2 years ago. I have Raynaud’s disease which leaves my fingers and toes cold most of the time. This makes it hard for…
I’m off to Dallas today to take part in a special patient advisory council* for the American Heart Association, which is desperately trying to reach out to people with diabetes about heart health.
They’ve created a program called Heart of Diabetes (sponsored by Takeda Pharmaceuticals) and are busy gathering patient stories in video format. Now they’re trying to figure out how to further get the word out, to people with Type 2 diabetes in particular,…
MannKind Corp., the most aggressive company pushing ahead on bringing inhalable insulin to market post the Exubera debacle, took a hit last week when it was forced to announce that a critical marketing partnership didn’t pan out. Investors are now fighting over the company’s future.
As a PWD who watched the whole sordid Exubera story play out with a sad smirk on my face (we all knew the product was too clunky and hard to…