Today is the final day to enter the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. You have until 11:59pm Pacific time to submit your brilliant idea for a new device or web tool to make life with diabetes better.
We have a great batch of tantalizing new concepts coming in…
See the video entries to date here:
http://www.youtube.com/group/DBMine2009Contest
and the
paper entries to date here:
http://www.scribd.com/group/71420-2009-diabetesmine-design-challenge
ENTER THE CONTEST here.
Meet our judges by reading their interviews…
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AmyT on
April 28, 2009
Traditionally, a “prescription” meant a piece of paper that got you a vial of pills or other medication you were meant to take until your next meeting with your doctor. Today, health professionals increasingly recognize that LEARNING is part of the prescription -– if you want people to thrive with their condition, that is.
The Health 2.0 conference I attended last week was all about different approaches to this topic: how do patients best learn…
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AmyT on
April 26, 2009
Last week, diabetes industry analyst David Kliff sent out an update to his subscribers claiming that Abbott Diabetes will soon be dropping the Navigator Continuous Glucose Monitoring System. Instead, Kliff says they’ll be entering the insulin pump market with a new product called the Aviator — the pump that they originally intended to pair with the Navigator.
A parent over at ChildrenWithDiabetes has posted the update in full, so you can read the details for…
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AmyT on
April 24, 2009
My 9-year old asks the best questions. A few mornings ago, staring at the OmniPod on my shoulder, she hit me with this one:
“Mom, does it hurt more when it pulls out or when it gets pushed in?”
“Um… neither hurts that much, really. OK — so when you pull it out, that’s just a second, but when it’s getting pushed into my skin, that kind of aches.” (I didn’t mention the most common…
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AmyT on
April 20, 2009
Welcome to the fourth in our series of interviews with the judges of this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge (with a $10,000 prize; submissions accepted until May 1, 2009).
You may not know his name off-hand, but Robert Oringer is a highly influential entrepreneur and angel investor in the diabetes industry. He pioneered private-label diabetes products such as lancets and glucose tablets long before these things were available off-the-shelf in every local drugstore. Robert also has…
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