This year, the “Most Creative Idea” category winner in the DiabetesMine Design Challenge was determined solely by community voting. And here’s what you guys picked: a program presenting a “virtual world” for kids with diabetes, in which they have to help take of little Sue Lin, all the while learning how to better manage their own diabetes —
In Sue Lin’s World was created by a team of people at at small-ish web design company…
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The third and final Grand Prize winner of this year’s 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge is Barbara McClatchey, mother of teenage boy with diabetes living in Collierville, Tennessee. She’s been a computer programmer for many years, and she and her husband both work for FedEx Corp. She’s also been heavily involved in her local JDRF chapter for 11 years, serving on the Board of Directors for the past seven.
Barb was honored for her concept called…
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Today, our second close-up look at one of our three 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge Grand Prize winners. Samantha Gustafson, a 21-year-old industrial design student at the University of Cincinnati, was honored for her design of a bright and appealing glucose meter for small children called Finn the Glucose Fish:
Finn may look simple, but creating that simplicity was hard work. Some of the homework Samantha did for this project might really surprise you. Read on……
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I spent yesterday glimpsing the future of health — or at least the patchwork vision thereof compiled by the Palo Alto, CA-based think tank, the Institute for the Future. The group’s annual Health Horizons conference is actually wrapping up today.
This gathering brings together about 85 leaders from “both the private and public sector” including Kaiser Permanente, Humana, Nokia, Kraft, the American Heart Association, and the CDC, to recap the Institute’s research from the past year…
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With all the talk about concerns of pregnancy / being a parent dealing with diabetes, here’s another issue that’s often crossed my mind: what if you’re adopting?
When thinking about starting a family, one usually runs down the checklist of typical concerns: Do we make enough money to support another life? Do we have enough space? Is there emotional support? Are we able to make the necessary sacrifices to raise a child? But when you…
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