Digital Health

JULY 30, 2014

There was a story in the Washington Post a few weeks back that started with this paragraph: “People, and especially men, hate being alone with their thoughts so much that they’d rather be in pain. In a study published in Science Thursday on the ability of people to let their minds “wander” — that is, for them to sit and do nothing but think — researchers found that about a quarter of women and two-thirds of men chose electric shocks over their own company.”.

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Digital Health 150

Insulin Nation

JULY 31, 2014

'Some people with Type 1 diabetes don’t like to advertise that they have the condition, even to their co-workers. We’ve put together a short video showing all the misunderstandings that can happen when a young woman decides to keep her co-workers in the dark about her diabetes. Do you tell your co-workers about your Type 1 diabetes? Why or why not?

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Medicine and Technology

JULY 29, 2014

This summer, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is holding an IHI Innovation Relay and you can join the Twitter chat on Wed 7/30 at 1 pm ET to learn more about how to pioneer answers to persistent problems in health care. "Each leg of the Relay will focus on a fundamental aspect of IHI’s Innovation strategy empowering participants to develop innovative solutions to challenges in health and health care.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 29, 2014

'All July, we’ve been featuring excerpts from Ginger Vieira’s new book, Dealing With Diabetes Burnout. To close out the month, we’re sharing one of Ginger’s tongue-in-cheek videos about living with diabetes. In this clip, Ginger lets loose on dietary supplement salespeople who troll her on the internet with supposed “cures” for Type 1 diabetes. As Ginger demonstrates, a good way to avoid diabetes burnout is to have a healthy sense of humor: To see more of Ginger’s great videos on life with diabe

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Insulin Nation

JULY 29, 2014

'All July, we’ve been featuring excerpts from Ginger Vieira’s new book, Dealing With Diabetes Burnout. To close out the month, we’re sharing one of Ginger’s tongue-in-cheek videos about living with diabetes. In this clip, Ginger lets loose on dietary supplement salespeople who troll her on the internet with supposed “cures” for Type 1 diabetes. As Ginger demonstrates, a good way to avoid diabetes burnout is to have a healthy sense of humor: To see more of Ginger’s great videos on life with diabe

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Insulin Nation

AUGUST 1, 2014

'I came out of my dreamlike state, trying to figure out where I was and what was happening. This didn’t feel like my bed, or my couch. I could hear things but I didn’t recognize the voices that were around me. “He looks like he’s coming out of it now,” said one voice. Things started making a little more sense. It had happened again. I was in the back of an ambulance.

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