Roche Social Media Summit & Onward to ADA

Yesterday and this morning, Allison and I attended the third annual Roche Diabetes Social Media Summit – a power-packed get-together of 37 diabetes bloggers and “online influencers” that allows us to pow-wow on all sorts of social media and diabet…

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Artificial Pancreas Gets Research Boost; "Home Study" is Next Step There were a number of encouraging news announcements this week here in Florida about progress on the JDRF's Artificial Pancreas Project. The most prominent of those is today's unveiling of the results of the STAR 3 Trial (Sensor-Augmented Pump T......
Test Strip News: The PQQ Gremlin The relative accuracy of blood glucose meters has of course been in the spotlight of late, since the FDA held a hearing to "crack down" on this issue last Fall. Funny, but I always assumed this had more to do with the technology inside the meter t......
Summer Reading 2010 – Starts Now Once again, I'm launching a series of Guest Posts here at the 'Mine for your summer reading enjoyment (and also because I'm going on vacation, K?)If all goes well, this year's Guest Posts should appear intermittently with a few features and news i......
Punitive Fees for "Unhealthy Behaviors" (Like Diabetes) Punishing people for being unhealthy is certainly not a new concept. Everything from societal peer pressure and restrictions on things like where you can smoke, to calorie counts at fast food restaurants and financial hits through insurance have t......
Guess That PWD #9 (Person with Diabetes) Got to pay a little respect to the guy who invented light, right? I mean before he invented the incandescent light bulb, there were only candles. Talk about a solid conversation starter – “hey what do you do for a living? I invent $hit like, light”. Boy how we take the little things for […]..................................................................... I want to sincerely thank you for your continued support. This blog is better because of you. Check out Blogging Diabetes on Facebook and join the conversation! Guess That PWD #9 (Person with Diabetes) is a post from: Blogging Diabetes...