As a little girl, I always wanted to be Lois Lane. Now that I’m grown up, Susannah Fox is my heroine of sorts. She’s the former editor of the U.S. News & World Report website, who’s now become a national authority on Americans’ use of the Internet, in particular when it comes to “participatory medicine.”
A Guest Post by Susannah Fox, Associate Director of Editorial for the Pew Internet and American Life Project
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For those of you who haven’t discovered this yet: the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation launched a so-called Blogger Round Table back in January. It’s organized by Allison Blass with two members of the JDRF communications team. Participants are: me, Kerri, Bernard Farrell, Scott Johnson, Allie Beatty, Manny Hernandez, Scott Strumello, Sandra Miller, and Gina Capone.
Each month, we get a set of questions on a certain diabetes topic du juor, and our answers are parsed…
This morning I am boarding a plane for Mexico, and later to LA and then Germany and Holland. Just over a whole month on the road this summer, wow! Sounds glamorous, I know, but actually travel stresses me out. I am of course looking forward to quality time with friends and family.
And what will be happening here at the blog? Quite a bit, I hope. I wanted to prepare you all for a new…
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You think the economy is bad? Maybe, but the tsunami of new companies creating health/medical tools on the web continues unhampered. A few to highlight today:
* HealthyDirectorymoz.com — a comprehensive directory of health and medical websites. It currently lists 907 active websites that you can look up under a variety of categories. Note that diabetes is buried under “Diseases and Conditions/Endocrine Disorders.” Ugh. But the directory’s quite impressive on the whole. It’s creator Nicole…
The online diabetes community, led by Gina Capone, has dubbed today a special day to lobby for insurance coverage of new continuous glucose monitoring systems. The idea is that we all raise our voices, by talking openly about how important CGMS is to our health, whether it’s simply for preventing lows at the gym or for dodging fatal heart attacks and strokes.
As most of you know, CGM systems are new to the market and…