I’m off to Dallas today to take part in a special patient advisory council* for the American Heart Association, which is desperately trying to reach out to people with diabetes about heart health.
They’ve created a program called Heart of Diabetes (sponsored by Takeda Pharmaceuticals) and are busy gathering patient stories in video format. Now they’re trying to figure out how to further get the word out, to people with Type 2 diabetes in particular,…
Welcome to Part 2 of my talk with award-winning journalist and Type 1 diabetic Dan Hurley, whose new “epic book” Diabetes Rising is due out soon. In case you missed it, read Part 1 of the interview here. Today, Dan talks about achieving the impossible — an artificial pancreas that works, and a diabetes community that will band together to demand faster, better treatment advances.
DiabetesMine) While working on this book, what did you…
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Curious about what’s happening in the diabetes industry and research community? Or maybe (like me) you think that you already know what’s going on… Well, get ready for a concise and extremely entertaining exposé of the current status of diabetes care and research towards a cure.
The title is Diabetes Rising, the new “epic book” coming out in January 2010 by award-winning investigative journalist Dan Hurley, a type 1 diabetic himself. As the publicist explains:…
Speaking of taking care of your diabetic feet, I was contacted this week by a European company called MeDaVinci working feverishly on a high-tech home scanning device that they hope will prevent amputations in thousands of patients who already have neuropathy.
Their system is called the Vincent 50 — after the St.Vincent Declaration, a decree signed by global health organizations in 1989 that vowed to cut the rate of diabetes-related foot amputations by 50%.
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You cannot be too careful with your feet. I was reminded of this wisdom big time last week, when I heard about an acquaintance who’s been diagnosed with melanoma and had to have two toes removed. She’s very fair, and apparently never put sunscreen on her feet. Have I ever done that? Not sure. Do not neglect your feet, my Friends!
On that note, a look back at post from early 2006 — probably the…