Small But Mighty: Creating the iPhone ‘Glucose Buddy’

Our new Small But Mighty series is taking a look at some of the homegrown companies from folks who know diabetes the best! This week, we’re chatting with Matt Tendler, co-founder of MYLEstone Health, the company that brings us Glucose Buddy, the l…

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AADE Diabetes Goal Tracker App – Review Diabetes advocate and lifestyle coach Ginger Vieira reviews the Goal Tracker app from the American Association of Diabetes Educators -- and finds it rather disappointing. REVIEWER'S BREAKDOWN - PROs: very in-depth, gives a lot of detail into goal......
LWD (Life With Diabetes) Video Friday: Kids with Type 2 Diabetes TGIF, right? And welcome to the second in our new series of "life with diabetes" videos created for us here at the 'Mine and for our sister community DiabeticConnect by filmmaker and D-mom Jenny MacKenzie.This week's episode is about a family lear......
Team Type 1 Working with 23andMe to Probe Genes Behind Diabetes The high-powered diabetic cycling group Team Type 1 has once again pulled off a jaw-dropping feat: they've somehow caught the attention of 23andMe, one of just three celeb-status companies in the world offering "personal genomics services" - they ......
First Backpacking Trip with Mirasol Clients There were those of us — myself included — who doubted it would be possible to incorporate backpacking into a residential eating disorder treatment program. Executive Director Diane Ryan, Admissions Director Carol Magee and I began talking about expanding Mirasol’s adventure therapy program to include backpacking in October, 2014. The challenges seemed overwhelming. First of all, since clients obviously don’t come to treatment outfitted for backpacking, we needed to purchase all the equipment from tents, sleeping bags and sleeping pads to flashlights, hiking poles and utensils. Over the next six months we patrolled eBay and Craigslist for good used equipment,...
Doing Diabetes Through the Crib Slats Stacey Simms is an award-winning medical reporter. She also spent 10 years as a TV anchor in Charlotte, North Carolina, and in Syracuse and Utica, New York. But after getting to know her a little, I'd venture to guess her most challenging role in ......