Mixing it up a little from my Wayback Wednesday series today…
It was four whole years ago that I wrote this tongue-in-cheek post about diabetes and yeast infections. The guys aren’t brewing at our place so much anymore, but I’m finding that ladies with diabetes are still struggling for answers. Why don’t doctors proactively tell us this stuff?!
Pitching Yeast
My husband and a few buddies brew beer in our backyard as a hobby. Sometimes they…
I know many of you are not keen on being overloaded with a bunch of “Health 2.0″ news. You just want to hear about things that effect your day-to-day existence with diabetes. Gotcha. Nevertheless, it’s useful to know what’s happening in the “health revolution” outside our D-community. You might be surprised.
I spent a significant amount of time on the topic this week, at the Health 2.0 Conference here in SF. (Here’s a nice new…
We often hear about adult athletes with diabetes — especially when they win Olympic gold or have a run-in with the law. But we don’t always get to hear about the younger athletes, the ones who are up-and-coming Olympians or World Champions. During the US Open last month, I spotted a young girl named Elizabeth Profit in a CNN article and was intrigued by her drive (and her OmniPod!).
Check out this amazing profile of…
What’s that you say? What the heck is a “Health Account Plan?” I am pleased to announce that this week, at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, I’ll be part of the launch of a brand new kind of online platform called Keas — featured in the New York Times today (!)
As many of you know, Dr. Richard Jackson (of Joslin Diabetes Center) and I wrote a guidebook for patients in 2007 called…
The diabetes online community has long been in agreement about one thing, I believe: the need for a centralized web directory of all imaginable diabetes resources, so that patients and doctors would only have to remember a single URL to find all the good stuff online.
And now it has arrived, thanks to Gina Capone, co-creator of DiabetesTalkfest.com and operator of The Diabetes OC bloggers’ web site.
From the press release: “TheDiabetesResource.com is the only…