Final Aware-lidays Giveaway: Hey, Jerry the Bear!

It’s been so much fun hosting the 2013 DiabetesMine ‘Aware-lidays’ Giveaway, mashing up November’s Diabetes Awareness Month activities with the start of the Holiday Season (read: Awareness + Holidays = ‘Aware-lidays!’). In our final installment t…

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The 2013 DiabetesMine Innovation Summit: Exploring Disconnects & Black Boxes On Friday, Nov. 15, we gathered with about 120 people at Stanford School of Medicine for the 2013 DiabetesMine Innovation Summit -- a small-ish gathering designed to spark interactions and discussions that lead to faster, better development and de......
What Should I Do in a Case of Dental Emergency By mendy rThere are many things which could damage your teeth and because of that is important to be prepared to react immediately in case of a dental emergency. The toothache, as well as some other problems, could appear when you least expect like in the middle of the night, for example. It will be impossible to contact your dentist at a time like this, so you have to find a way to wait until the morning when you will be able to get some help. You may feel a lot of pain during that period of time but there...
Raaawr! Where’s Our Blue Bear for Diabetes Awareness? With November being Diabetes Awareness Month, all kinds of pitches and news releases about awareness and fundraising campaigns have been pouring into our inboxes. One that caught our eye came directly from the JDRF, which is now in its 10th year o......
Eating Disorders Are Deadly, But Who’s to Blame? (Op-Ed) – Yahoo News Yahoo NewsEating Disorders Are Deadly, But Who's to Blame? (Op-Ed)Yahoo NewsWho is to blame for your eating disorder? The answer is no one. Current science suggests eating disorders are biologically based, influenced by numerous complex environmental factors coming together — as they did for me, to create a perfect storm of ...Stigma means eating disorder sufferers not getting treatmentNorthern Starall 3 news articles »...
Pointless treatments ‘Patients (are) sometimes being offered treatments that have only minor benefit.’ We hear that doctors have been told to stop doing pointless treatments and tell patients that doing nothing can often be the best approach. Patients often expect their GPs to give them a prescription or refer them for an operation, rather than being told to take control of their own condition, by changing their lifestyle. For dentistry, in many ways, it is worse. Patients may welcome being told ‘nothing needs doing’, but resent being asked to pay a patients charge of £17 for the privilege of hearing this. Many...