Our team will be out of the office tomorrow as we all head to Philadelphia to attend the 72nd annual American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions conference. We at the ‘Mine are very excited to be covering this event for the 8th year running (!)
For the first time ever, the ADA is all over social media, not only with a twitter feed (@ADA_DiabetesPro), a Facebook page, an iPhone app and a Blackberry/Android app for attendees,…
Diabetes stress and struggles don’t just smack at the PWD (person with diabetes). The rest of the family is impacted, too.
That’s the message two well-known type 1s and diabetes advocates — Dr. Bill Polonsky of the Behavioral Diabetes Institute and Former Miss America 1999 Nicole Johnson, who leads the Bringing Science Home program at University of South Florida Health (providing resources for patients and families affected by chronic diseases) — are pushing with a new…
Ever wonder what it would be like to give them a taste of their own medicine…?
Thanks to cartoonist Mike Lawson, social media guru and funnyman, whose sarcasm speaks to our own hearts.
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Got opinions about current diabetes devices & treatments and how they could be improved? Of course you do!
There are just twelve days left to enter our epic Diabetes Patient Voices Contest — a one-of-kind opportunity for 10* well-spoken patient advocates to meet with decision-makers in Pharma, technology, design, health gaming and other relevant fields to talk about what works for us and what doesn’t. Who knows better than we, the patients, what we need…
We’re now at the end of the fifth month of 2012, which is simply amazing — how quickly this year is going by! With the summer months arriving soon and bringing a lot of diabetes conference activity, we feel especially motivated to highlight all the great posts from this past month. So, in no particular order, here are some of our recent favorites from the Diabetes Online Community:
How can we not recognize Diabetes Blog Week,…
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