I know, I know, this is a diabetes blog. But those of you who follow me regularly are probably aware that a new chronic illness has entered our lives — Lyme disease. My husband was diagnosed shortly after we returned from Germany last summer, and it’s turning out to be a much more formidable opponent than we originally thought.
Here are some things I have learned:
1. The disease is named after the village of…
A little diabetes online fun for your Monday: Use your Noggin and three lucky readers will win a free copy of Dan Hurley’s new “epic” book, “Diabetes Rising.”
First off, you may have heard a lot of buzz about this book lately. The full title is, “Diabetes Rising: How a Rare Disease Became a Modern Pandemic, and What to Do About It.” It’s written by award-winning investigative journalist Dan Hurley, who’s lived himself with Type…
In Germany, people wish each other a “Guten Rutsch” (or a “good slide”) into the new year. Here’s a little visual that might help with that expression
Today, from the bottom of my diabetic heart — and my family’s — wishing you all a great slide into 2010.
I did not get around to compiling a year-in-review post for the field of diabetes as I had hoped (other than my annual roundup of what happened here).…
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I realize that we haven’t hit Christmas yet this year. And Hanukkah begins tonight at sundown — so maybe you haven’t yet experienced your Best or Worst of the Holidays with Diabetes for this year. But we’re asking anyway: share a story for a chance to win!
The DiabetesMine ‘Tis the Season! Survival Sweepstakes closes for submissions tonight at midnight Pacific. The idea was to gather past experiences in advance, to share with each other…
Many of you know that the FDA held public hearings on the pharma industry’s use of Social Media mid-last-month. There was much excitement going into this because to date, the FDA has pretty much dodged the subject, and left drugmakers in fear of retribution (see BusinessWeek‘s summary here).
Essentially, since there are no clear rules laid out for how pharma can and can’t advertise their wares online, and talk about them on blogs, social networks,…