Sunday, November 08, 2009

The Ultimate Diabetes Resource

Earlier in the year at the Diabetes bloggers summit, my friend Gina gave me a preview of The Diabetes Resource. Even though this was waay back in July and long before the official launch, I was impressed by the design of the site itself and the sheer amount of really useful information that's in there.

Gina, is responsible for the DiabetesTalkFest site and the CGM Anti-Denial Campaign site and has been online for many years. She really understands the kinds of diabetes information that people are looking for and she and her team have done an awesome job at providing a great resource that's easy to use and well organized.

For example, The Diabetes Resource currently lists 41 web sites that provide diabetes accessories, most of which I didn't even know about. The events page on The Diabetes Resource gives you all the information about upcoming events, and makes it easy for you to add information about your event. There's also a chat room at The Diabetes Resource, so you have extra chances to connect with others who are living with diabetes.

I know, from maintaining the diabetes search engine, that the number of sites focusing on diabetes is constantly expanding. Many of these are useful and informative, but there are also a lot of sites with misleading information and spam. It takes a lot of effort to separate these sites from one another, luckily The Diabetes Resource has a great team that knows all about life with diabetes, so it can be depended on to keep this well maintained.


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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Travelling to the Roche Diabetes Care summit

Just a quick post while I'm waiting to board a plane.

The event has been organized by Roche, makers of the Accu-Chek line of products. Among other things we'll be talking about is How can bloggers and community leaders best represent and help other patients?

I will be there along with some of my favorite diabetes bloggers including: Scott Johnson; Scott Strumello; Chris Bishop; Bennet Dunlap; Kerri Morrone Sparling; Kelly Kunik; Manny Hernandez; Kelly Close; Amy Tenderich and others.

So you know what we'll spend a lot of our time talking about.

But I'd love your input, how do you think diabetes blogger could better represent you and reach out to help the millions of others with diabetes?

More about this summit over the next few days.

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Friday, January 09, 2009

New web site for Faustman lab

Dr. Faustman, whose lab is doing research into a possible cure for type 1 diabetes, has a new web site.

The new site design includes information about the current phase 1 clinical trials for the diabetes cure. The support section provides information about organizing an event to support the research work. And the news section lets you read all of the newsletters produced by the lab.

Dr. Faustman plans to start phase II trials later this year. To support this work we need to raise $25 million. You can now donate directly to this work from another part of the support section of the site.

The new layout makes it much easier to read all the current information about Dr. Faustman's research. Now all we have to do is wait for more news about the progress!

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Thursday, January 01, 2009

New Year gift

I picked up the mail today and opened a letter from my wonderful endo (Dr. Elizabeth Spatola of St. Joseph's in Nashua NH).

Inside it was the latest A1C test and (....drumroll....) my A1c is 6.6%

For me this is the lowest value I've ever had, and I'm more thankful than I can say.

In 2009, I'd like to keep my A1C at around 6.6% for the year. I'm grateful that I can use technology (insulin pump, Dexcom CGM) and rely on many people at TuDiabetes and the entire Diabetes OC (online community) for support and advice. Without all my friends in the d-blogosphere, I think living with diabetes would be a lot harder.

In 2009 may your blood sugars be steady and your diabetes frustrations be few.

For all of us I hope to see some exciting diabetes research development in the next 12 months.

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