To what degree is the state of our health really in our own hands? According to author Thomas Goetz, it very largely is. In his new book The Decision Tree, published last week, Thomas argues that since we live in a world where data on anything, including personal health, is abundant, all we need to do is feed this data into a personal flow chart that will aid us in making the right decisions.
He…
If you’re like me — or even if you don’t spend quite as much time browsing “all things diabetes” in cyberspace — you might have noticed that the incredible proliferation of new D-blogs and online communities is making it seemingly impossible to keep up. Which is actually a wonderful thing, I suppose.
Quite by accident, in the days after Christmas, I happened upon a small notice for a San Francisco diabetes meetup. It turned out…
Once again it’s time to reflect on what marked the year here at DiabetesMine.com. 2009 was surely eventful, both for this blog and for me personally. Never a dull a moment when you’re a busy D-blogger, Health 2.0 advocate, and mother of three, I guess. Here’s a list of some key milestones that stand out in my mind:
January – I was invited to New York to attend a Health Bloggers Summit hosted by the…
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Many of you know that the FDA held public hearings on the pharma industry’s use of Social Media mid-last-month. There was much excitement going into this because to date, the FDA has pretty much dodged the subject, and left drugmakers in fear of retribution (see BusinessWeek‘s summary here).
Essentially, since there are no clear rules laid out for how pharma can and can’t advertise their wares online, and talk about them on blogs, social networks,…
The Diabetes Technology Society held its annual meeting last Thursday through Saturday, which always takes place just about a mile and a half from my house. But guess what? This was the very first year that I found myself on the inside of this exclusive event, participating in a panel (the very last panel of the 3-day event) on “technologies to drive patient adherence.”
The term “adherence” made me bristle, too, because it sounds like…