I know Phil Southerland wouldn’t want me to call him a hero, but I can’t help myself. He has achieved what many thought impossible: creating a team of competitive cyclists with type 1 diabetes on track to become world-class. His efforts in recruiting athletes for Team Type 1, finding pharmaceutical sponsors, training like a maniac, and yet still finding time for motivational speaking around the country are beyond inspirational for people with diabetes everywhere. I…
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January 10, 2009
Finally, a press release that is unquestionably post-worthy: on Friday, the legendary Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston announced that it’s received a million-dollar grant to support type 1 diabetes research.
The money comes from a wealthy patient with his own philanthropic organization: the Thomas J. Beatson, Jr. Foundation. Beatson lives in Phoenix, AZ, and is also a Joslin Medalist for living with type 1 diabetes for 50 or more years. He’s given funds to the…
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December 24, 2008
Following on my review of the year in diabetes, I’ve been reflecting on what marked 2008 here at DiabetesMine.com. I realized that 2008 was quite an eventful year over here, both for me personally and news-wise. Here’s a list of some key milestones here at the Mine:
January – I was featured in Newsweek! And we learned that diabetes costs America more than the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and the global war on terrorism combined.…
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December 10, 2008
As many of you know, I’ve taken on Health Design as a platform of advocacy. And it happened almost by accident, when I had the inspiration to pen that Open Letter to Steve Jobs back in April of ’07. It was a tongue-in-cheek call-to-action for the gurus of consumer design to get together with the providers of medical devices and start making them smaller, slicker, more personalizable — in short, more like the iPod.
I’m happy…
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December 3, 2008
That’s what it feels like, anyway. A millennium of skin malfunctions over here that are making my diabetes and gluten intolerance genuinely intolerable of late! (A TMI post? Read at your own risk)
The latest bout of troubles kicked off this summer when I took the new Abbott Navigator CGM sensor for a test drive. The very latex-y adhesive used to adhere that product to the skin did not get along with my skin at…
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