By
MikeH on
April 23, 2013
With self-publishing on the rise, it seems like everyone’s an author these days — and the diabetes community has its share of book-writers of all sorts.
Just skim through the listings over at Amazon. A quick search of “diabetes” brings up 22,000 “new and popular” titles, many of them involving food and diets, but also exercise, lifestyle and personal encounters with this illness. The term “type 1 diabetes” narrows the findings down to 952 books…
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By
MikeH on
September 4, 2012
When he started writing his newest novel, True Believers, award-winning author and public radio show host Kurt Andersen didn’t think diabetes would become a part of the story the way it did. But what the Brooklyn author and longtime type 1 ended up with was just that: a book that weaves life with type 1 diabetes into the narrative in a brand new way.
As a fictitious first-person novel, the book opens a cracked window to…
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By
MikeH on
June 28, 2012
All eyes are on the U.S. Supreme Court, which just ruled today on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Everyone’s talking about this, and it’s apparently the most widely anticipated Court decision in memory, according to those in the know.
This is about insurance and our society’s desire to pay for well-being. Just one example of why this is so important comes from a study released in mid-June stating more than 26,000 working-age adults…
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By
AmyT on
December 28, 2009
Once again it’s time to reflect on what marked the year here at DiabetesMine.com. 2009 was surely eventful, both for this blog and for me personally. Never a dull a moment when you’re a busy D-blogger, Health 2.0 advocate, and mother of three, I guess. Here’s a list of some key milestones that stand out in my mind:
January – I was invited to New York to attend a Health Bloggers Summit hosted by the…
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