Happy Holidays from Our Diabetes Giveaway Givers and Winners

As we head into the last minute gift-buying rush for the Holidays, it’s a great time to feature our 2014 “Good Vibes” Holiday Giveaway winners — along with a glimpse at the companies offering great diabetes prizes: Jerry the Bear and ChillMED, ma…

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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...
2012: The Diabetes Year In Review Well, we all made through another year!Surprised we got through this one? Especially with that purported Mayan prediction about the world ending on Dec. 21, 2012? Well, we're still here! Predictions of doom were apparently exaggerated... Perhaps t......
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......
Henry Schein Commits $500,000 In Health Care Product Donations To Support Nepal Earthquake Relief Efforts Company Opens Nepal Disaster Relief Fund Through The Henry Schein Cares Foundation...
DiabetesMine Moving to New Home at Healthline.com COUNTDOWN: ONE WEEK TO GO...That's right, Dear Friends, Followers and Readers: in exactly one week from today, DiabetesMine will appear at its new online home, www.healthline.com/diabetesmine (not yet live). As we announced in mid-December, new f......