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FDA Speaks Out on the DiabetesMine Innovation Summit (!)

By AmyT on December 5, 2012

Wow! We’re excited to welcome not one, but three senior FDA officers as joint guest posters here at the ‘Mine today. All three of these individuals attended and participated in the recent 2012 DiabetesMine Innovation Summit, which we hosted at Stanford University on Nov. 16.
Dr. Alberto Gutierrez gave an opening talk titled “How Different Constituencies Can Work Together to Improve Technology Tools for Diabetes Care” (slides here); Stayce Beck participated in our “Data and…

ADA’s CEO on Paula Deen, the Blue Circle, and Representing Adults with Type 1 Diabetes

By AmyT on March 20, 2012

Last week, we interviewed the American Diabetes Association’s CEO Larry Hausner on that organization’s ambitious plans for the next few years. FYI, Larry is also currently chair of the board of directors of the National Health Council (NHC), a national patient policy organization representing all people living with chronic illness.
In our phone interview, in which he was very generous with his time, we talked about what the NHC organization does, along with asking Larry…

Employee Wellness Month and Diabetes: How You Doin’?

By AmyT on June 8, 2011

June is National Employee Wellness Month, Folks. Did you know?
It’s a campaign created a few years ago by none other than Virgin HealthMiles, a leading provider of employee health programs (go figure). And this year’s initiative is co-sponsored by the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, and the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation. Why do we smell diabetes all over that?
A lot of the focus here…

Diabetes Alert Day – More Ways Than One

By AmyT on March 22, 2011

Today is annual Diabetes Alert Day — an important day, I suppose, for finding all those “hidden” type 2 diabetics out there who don’t yet know they have it — but for us already living with diabetes, a somewhat enigmatic campaign. Also, for those of us concerned with type 1 diabetes, today seems like an excellent day to do some advocating on the symptoms and risk factors for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes,…

Diabetes: The Possibilities

By AmyT on October 22, 2010

It doesn’t seem possible. In this day and age, with all the advanced medicines and devices, the diligent attention so many of us pay to our glucose control and that of our diabetic children… How can a healthy, happy child with diabetes, seemingly in such good control, simply pass away in her sleep without a peep or a warning sign that might have alerted her loved ones that something was wrong?
But it did happen,…

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