Give Your Kidneys Some Love
March is National Kidney Month (yes, they have a month for that organ! and even a World Kidney Day on...
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Design Challenge: A Chat with Our Professor of Health Design
Peter Jones may have a common name, but he's a rare animal. He's one of the few academic design experts...
Diabetes Car Crash
This morning, after dropping off the kids at school, I decided that I was due for a car accident. This...
Raising the Bar on Glucose Meter Accuracy: The Industry Recommends…
More details on the recent FDA Hearings on the accuracy of blood glucose monitoring devices: I was surprised by the...
American Diabetes ‘Wake-Up Call’ Day; Healthcare Reform?
"Diabetes has become the greatest public health crisis of the next quarter century." This according the American Diabetes Association, via...
FDA Hearings on Blood Glucose Meters – An Advocate’s Perspective
Many of you may know that the FDA held a two-day Public Hearing on the issue of Glucose Meter Accuracy...
In Case of Emergency: This Keychain Gadget Could be Your LifeGuard
Let's face it: a medical ID bracelet really doesn't answer all the questions someone would need to ask if they...
Design Challenge: Insights from Last Year’s Big Winner
I proudly present Samantha Katz as Exhibit A: the graduate student from Northwestern University who (along with project partner Erik...
NEWSFLASH: Medtronic’s New Next-Gen Pump + CGM OK’d by the FDA
Happy St. Patrick's Day, again. See this morning's post with some wee silliness on that.A quick newsflash on this lovely...
From Ireland with Love (and Diabetes)
I often wonder what it would be like to have diabetes in a different western industrialized country - one that...
Clarifying LADA (Type 1 Diabetes in Adults)
When I met fellow D-writer Catherine Price for coffee recently, I immediately gushed about everything we had in common: two...
