Talk about your really cool mashups of Web 2.0 technology being employed in clever ways to help improve people’s health! The non-profit Diabetes Hands Foundation has teamed up with Joslin Diabetes Center and pharma sponsor Boehringer Ingelheim to introduce a new interactive, Facebook-based game with social networking features that teaches you about healthy eating and diabetes management, and encourages you to take actions. The game is called HealthSeeker, and it goes live today!
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AmyT on
February 17, 2010
If you run a diabetes blog, web site, or small organization doing some kind of diabetes advocacy work, you will want to know about this: a new ‘Diabetes Advocates Program‘ that can help you and your work get noticed.
Basically, TuDiabetes founder Manny Hernandez and David Edelman of DiabetesDaily put on their thinking caps after last summer’s Diabetes Social Media Summit hosted by Roche. Everyone in attendance was in the same boat: working hard on…
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AmyT on
August 28, 2009
September is nearly upon us (ugh…), and I for one am already eyeball-deep in work mode again. As I pack up my swimsuits, and prepare to start wearing my OmniPod on my now-hidden upper arms again (pending any late summer heat waves), I reflect on what went on in the diabetes world this summer, much of it while I was out and about:
The groundbreaking Roche Diabetes Social Media Summit, which was a wonderful…
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AmyT on
August 20, 2009
Kelly Close is the brillant mind behind Close Concerns, a consultancy dedicated to “the business of diabetes.” In addition to having type 1 diabetes for more than 20 years, she is also one of the thought leaders in the diabetes community. One of Close Concern’s main objectives is to go every ― and I mean every ― diabetes conference and report back on the latest findings. Today, Kelly shares some new nuggets she discovered at this…
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The New York Times reports today that the rise in the use of home glucose monitors, also in hospitals, is pushing the Food and Drug Administration toward a possible crack-down on accuracy standards. Some of you might say it’s about time, considering that current standards allow a margin for error of up to 20%, which can make a huge difference in the choices we make on food, exercise, and in particular insulin doses.
And who…
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