By
AmyT on
September 23, 2010
Earlier this week, Novo Nordisk released results of a sweeping new survey about how patients — both type 1 and type 2 — struggle with insulin therapy, and what doctors accredit that to.
Entitled the Global Attitudes of Patients and Physicians in Insulin Therapy (GAPPTM), the survey was conducted among almost 3,000 physicians and patients in eight countries “with the objective to learn what they perceive to be the biggest functional and emotional unfulfilled needs…
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By
AmyT on
September 22, 2010
Good thing poetry is timeless. I’m a little late getting this out, but wanted to shine the spotlight on a new(ish) diabetes book that was created not by a doctor or medical professional or even a patient sharing his/her personal journey, but by the aggregate of our own awesome D-community: “No Sugar Added Poetry.”
The book is a compelling and sometimes heart-wrenching collection of 39 poems written by people touched by diabetes from around the…
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By
AmyT on
September 21, 2010
The iPhone integration dreams of many a diabetic are coming true at last!!
Sanofi-Aventis made history today at the annual EASD (European Association for the Study of Diabetes) conference, if you ask me. They have introduced the first-ever medical device that actually physically plugs into the iPhone and iPod Touch! It’s a tiny new USB-sized glucose meter they’re calling iBGStar. It’s coupled with the new iBGStar Diabetes Manager program, a free logging app that users…
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By
AmyT on
September 20, 2010
I’m a huge Crystal Bowersox fan. Personally, I think this husky-voiced “busker” should have won this year’s American Idol competition, but it’s still freakin’ amazing to take 2nd place in this larger-than-life national competition.
Those of you who follow entertainment news (or this blog) know by now that Crystal is “one of us” — a person with diabetes (PWD). She’s a type 1 and insulin pumper, currently using her new-found fame to help fellow PWDs.…
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By
AmyT on
September 17, 2010
I love the name of this awareness campaign. I mean, if anything ever deserved the moniker “24/7,” it’s this exasperating disease.
Actually, the full video campaign is called “The Betes: Now” and was put together for this summer’s Children with Diabetes Friends for Life conference by D-blogger Bennet Dunlap’s ueber-creative kids. Read the details in my earlier report.
Mine seems to be the latest of 40 video shorts now published on their website. Tune in…
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