I don’t know if all you fellow patients realize this, but the big companies that make the medicines and devices we rely on (those giant Pharmas that we love to hate) are struggling something fierce to come to terms with Social Media. By that I mean they see the world of blogs, social networks, YouTube and wikis exploding all around them and they’re not quite sure what to do about it.
But with the Obama…
Mollie and Jackie Singer are 19-almost-20-year-old twins from Las Vegas, Nevada, who have spent the better part of their lives advocating on behalf of people with diabetes. Mollie was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 4 and she and her sister Jackie, along with their mom, Jackie, and their aunt Mollie (who are also twins — so yes, two sets of twins, both Mollie and Jackie!) — recently launched a new social network called…
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All the most useful and intriguing things I learned about diabetes seem to come from other patients. No contest. Every time I correspond with folks in the community and read other PWDs blogs (as much as time permits), I am blown away by the stuff I hear about. I was fortunate enough to actually see Manny Hernandez and Anne Findlay live and in person in San Francisco last week. Here are three cool things they…
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It’s finally here — the compilation of all the wonderful nuggets of wisdom from YOU, the diabetes community, that you shared with us here during the recent Holiday Survival Sweepstakes event.
In case you missed that whole to-do, we asked PWDs across the community to share some of their best tips about surviving the holiday season with diabetes: on exercise, stress, managing the “diabetes police,” travel, and of course, food.
Rather than lose all the…
As mentioned on Friday, Internet legend Craig Newmark was the featured speaker at last week’s Consumer Reports Health Blogging Summit in Yonkers, NY. Having lived and worked in the web-tech capital of the world for so many years, I couldn’t help being a little awed to meet “Mr. Craiglist” himself in person. And he didn’t disappoint.
Craig is the quintessential nerd, and he revels in it. He must have said the word “nerd” at least…