By
AmyT on
August 31, 2007
A few miscellaneous items you might like to know about over the holiday weekend. Or not — what, you won’t be glued to your computer reading me?!
First up, Quote of the Week:
“Exubera was not our finest day,” acknowledged Pfizer’s vice chairman, David Shedlarz, during a recent conference call with analysts. “We made a lot of mistakes with what is a profoundly important therapeutic.” (courtesy of PharmaGossip)
Can you see me smiling?
Second, did…
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The power gals over at BlogHer (online community for women bloggers founded in 2005) have had a stroke of genius: What if, they thought, every one of their 11,000+ members worked together to focus their collective brainpower, ingenuity and influence on one red-hot issue? “How about if that one red-hot issue was the focus of an organized, year-long campaign to make a measurable difference that this community cares about?”
To this end, last week the…
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A few announcements today:
First, I’ve been hit by a generous helping of comment spam, forcing me to switch on my “moderate comments” filter. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. If your comment is legitimate, rest assured it will be posted, it just may take a little longer than back in the day when I could just leave comments open without screening everybody. *Sigh*
btw, for those of you who’ve been writing to me…
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Happy Spring, All! If you’re reading this, you’ve survived this year’s second annual Sugar Fest (Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween), so congratulations. And now for an update on some stuff that might interest you, on and offline:
ON THE WEB:
* The “Patient Empowerment Movement” has a new champion? At least that’s the sense you get at Kevin J. Leonard’s Patient Destiny blog. Kevin is an associate professor of medicine at University of Toronto, working to…
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DiabetesHealth magazine has launched its online makeover… and guess what? It looks a lot more like a blog now than just another print publication that’s putting its stuff up on the web.
And guess what else? Editor Scott King and his crew — including brand new Managing Editor Linda von Wartburg — have organized their series of video interviews into a nice, clean, comprehensive collection called (the new & improved) DiabetesHealth TV.
And guess what…
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