Sixteen-thousand doctors, scientists, and other healthcare providers. Hundreds of Pharma industry folks and food and diabetes supply vendors manning 171 booths in a cavernous exhibit hall. Over 2,500 research reports, plus over 2,000 more studies presented on mini-billboards known as research posters. More than 150 live sessions where experts present nearly 378 reports on every imaginable aspect of diabetes in the human body.
This is the American Diabetes Association annual Scientific Sessions conference, taking place…
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Today’s Diabetes Blog Week prompt is on Fantasy Diabetes Devices — which is just up our alley, all course! We’re all in search of the “Holy Grail” tool for diabetes care, whether that’s a dream blood glucose checker, a lancer you don’t feel at all, or a super-charged insulin delivery system…
For me personally, the fantasy device at the top of my wish list would help me better handle the one thing that’s most difficult…
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May is a busy-busy month. Among many other observances, it is national “Exercise is Medicine Month,” celebrating the role of fitness in keeping us healthy. Not surprisingly, there are many new apps and techy tools to help us with this, too. One of those is a popular little gadget called the Fitbit, featured just last week on the Dr. Oz show.
Turns out, our very own cartoonist and social media maven Mike Lawson has been…
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AmyT on
January 25, 2012
Roughly ten days ago, I was at the annual sprawling nexus of new consumer technology that takes place in Las Vegas every year, otherwise known as CES. For the second year in a row, a breakout event called the Digital Health Summit was a packed house, close to standing room only, as people swarmed in to find out what’s happening in the world of new health and medical devices, apps, and all manner of mobile…
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