Bernard Farrell

Member since: Jul 21st, 2006

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The era of stupid clothing has ended (WalletPop)

Feb 8th 2008 11:00AM This is interesting. I wonder how hard it would be to put some type of continuous glucose monitor in this stuff. that could be of benefit to a LOT of people. And that might help Smartex because it would increase demand for their product.

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Over 200 diabetes patients die in study (That's Fit)

Feb 8th 2008 6:03AM Can I point out two things in your post that need to be cleared up.

1. This study involved only people with type 2 diabetes who already were at risk for cardiovascular disease.

2. In the group that tried intensive control 257 people died (out of over 10,000 people in the study). In the group that tried non-intensive control 203 people died. So there's a difference but it's not as dramatic as you point out.

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Top 25 Stocks for the NEXT 25 years: DexCom (DXCM) update (BloggingStocks)

Sep 27th 2007 9:17AM As a Dexcom user, and someone who has already profited from the stock uptick, I'm very positive about this company.

I think we'll see continuous glucose monitoring become the replacement for blood glucose tests as more people realize the benefits and as more papers are published that demonstrate them. Dexcom is also looking to move into the critical care area in hospitals. I think that could save money for insurers, improve patient outcomes, and dramatically increase sales for Dexcom.

I'm committed to them for the long term both as a user and a part owner.

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Electronic records do not mean better diabetes care (That's Fit)

Jun 13th 2007 9:31PM Brian

The reason why folks with diabetes are not helped by electronic records at their doctor's offices is because many of us make our treatment decisions based on records we keep. What would make THAT easier is improved software for home use by folks with diabetes. And that's now starting to happen, with web-based products. Now all we need is for the device manufacturers to open up the data collected from our bodies so we can use it help ourselves.

Bernard
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ActiveWords - The most useful utility I'm no longer using (Download Squad)

Aug 8th 2006 1:34AM This is off the topic of the original post, but can ActiveWords (and others) be installed on a U3 flash drive and would that solve some of the problems?

This evening I went through the installation of ActiveWords on my newish laptop. I just wonder why I waited so long to do it.

I think much of the problem is that vendors of all sizes are still thinking of individual machines rather than thinking that many of us now have several machines we use or a regular basis (in the course of my week I spend a significant amount of time on five specific machines, four of which are at home).

We have to get away from thinking of these as isolated islands of computing and figure out how to integrate the network such that changing settings can be done locally or across my computer network (as defined by me).

This is yet another part of the future that I'm looking forward to.