By
MikeH on
April 12, 2013
Everyone wants to know what the patient community is thinking these days. The explosion of social media and patient advocacy has fueled the desire for Pharma, device companies, health organizations and insurers to seek out our perspective and input — which is a wonderful development!
This is happening not just in diabetes, but across the broader spectrum of health conditions. But the Diabetes Online Community (DOC) does stand out, as it seems to be the…
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By
AmyT on
March 24, 2013
March is National Nutrition Month and many eyes on are health and wellness in the workplace. But this may not have been what your boss and co-workers had in mind …
Sure… we bet that lap pool is there for your health, and not as a moat to keep co-workers at bay… HA! Thanks again to our regular cartoon contributor Jerry King, an accomplished worldwide cartoonist and strong D-sympathizer.…
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Ginger Vieira kind of blows me away. She has lived with Type 1 diabetes and Celiac disease for over 11 years. And she holds 14 national, drug-tested powerlifting records and the Vermont state record for the female bench press. She’s recently established herself as a cognitive Health & Chronic Illness Life Coach at her new company, Living In Progress.
There Ginger works with people (individuals and families) on how their thinking impacts the way they…
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I spent yesterday glimpsing the future of health — or at least the patchwork vision thereof compiled by the Palo Alto, CA-based think tank, the Institute for the Future. The group’s annual Health Horizons conference is actually wrapping up today.
This gathering brings together about 85 leaders from “both the private and public sector” including Kaiser Permanente, Humana, Nokia, Kraft, the American Heart Association, and the CDC, to recap the Institute’s research from the past year…
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By
AmyT on
December 30, 2008
I hope you’re not tired of yearly roundups yet — hey, we reporters and bloggers only get to do this stuff once a year. So why not do it up big?
Speaking of big, see the TIME magazine Year in Medicine 2008.
Take a gander at their 5 Truths About Health Care in America, which probably won’t surprise you: we Americans spend too much on health care, and get little for our money. On the…
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