Bernard Farrell
About: Working for a mid-size company north of Boston during the day.
Diabetes evangelist at night. Trying to develop a new microformat for diabetes data.
Developed the Diabetes Search Engine using Google Custom Search Engine facilities. Try it out and see what you think.
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Blog Posts
Diabetes Etiquette
--Etiquette is all about being polite. It's also (for me) is a hard word to spell. I need to practice writing it some more.Have you ever sat down to ...
Rocking the vote
--OK, this has nothing to do with diabetes technology. But it gave me a laugh, and that has to be good for my control...I think.
CBS on the Artificial Pancreas
--This morning, there was a short segment on the Early Show that talked about the Artificial Pancreas.The trials sound very interesting and it looks ...
My upcoming triathlon
--If you're a regular reader, you'll know I've been offline for a few weeks, this was for good reasons. We visited Ireland for a big family reunion a...
Insulet Omnipod issue
--If you're an OmniPod user, you've probably already seen this update. But just in case. According to the TuDiabetes postThe update states that, if y...
ABC News (GMA) confuses type 1 and type 2 diabetes - again
--Today's Good Morning America program had a segment on cutting the risk of Type 2 diabetes. But they forget to point out exactly WHICH type of diabe...
Dexcom Open Choice upgrade shipping soon
--At the end of April I posted about the Dexcom Open Choice model. I was fortunate to get a loaner model for a short while. Since then I've been wait...
Nanosensors for blood glucose monitoring?
--I came across an interesting article from Technology Review (TR) about Vista Therapeutics. Vista Therapeutics has licensed some Harvard University ...
Rise of Opinion leaders
--I stumbled across the Pharma 2.0 blog recently after getting a Google News alert about a posting there. Bunny's post is about the influence that ce...
Medtronic to invest in device design
--Medtronic clearly sees a lot of revenue potential in future devices. According to Reuters, they are planning to spend 35% more this year on their n...
Testing your A1c from home
--My latest video shows how I used the Diabetech HomeCheck A1c test kit to test my A1c at home. This is the second time I've used this kit to check m...
Meeting with Dr. Faustman, again
--Yesterday I was fortunate to spend an hour with Dr. Faustman while she was being interviewed by David Edelman of DiabetesDaily.com.He's going to po...
The artificial pancreas
--You may have already heard about the JDRF artificial pancreas project. They're working on developing a closed loop system where readings from a con...
Dexcom Open Choice
--My local Dexcom rep kindly arranged to give me a loaner of the new Dexcom Open Choice system. The main difference with this system is how it's cali...
2nd Annual DiabetesMine Design Challenge
--Amy Tenderich has announced another diabetes design challenge. Last year Amy wrote an open letter to Steve Jobs. The design company Adaptive Path t...
OneTouch UltraLink meter
--We finally have a replacement wireless meter for the Minimed Paradigm insulin pumps. The new model is the OneTouch UltraLink meter.It uses existing...
New diabetes search sites
--It's been a while since I did this. The diabetes search engine now has about 900 sites and pages that it searches for information all about diabete...
Delighting the customer
--I use this term for a product that you may already like that then surprises you with a feature that you didn't even know existed. Like a car that t...
Oramed starts phase 2A trials on insulin capsules
--Yesterday Oramed Pharmaceuticals announced they are starting phase 2A trials on their oral insulin capsules. The capsules are being tested at Hadas...
Type 1 Diabetes Awareness Day
--Today I'm joining other folks with type 1 diabetes to make a little noise about it.This used to be called juvenile diabetes because most people wer...
Friday things
--The second part of the blogger roundtable series has been published on the JDRF site.This time we're all talking about insulin pumps. How we first ...
My alleged heart attack
--To stop you from worrying I have not had a heart attack. Or any inkling of one.Recently when I saw my excellent endo we had a discussion about whet...
What I'm up to
--It's been too long since I blogged here. My intention is to maintain this blog for review of diabetes devices and comments on usability and future ...
Type 1 cure trials start
--This is the most exciting news I've had since my diagnosis with diabetes 25 years ago. Today ClinicalTrial.gov posted a trial announcement looking ...
Abbott FreeStyle Navigator is approved
--Today Abbott reported that the FDA has (finally) approved the FreeStyle Navigator continuous glucose monitor(CGM) for sale in the US.This is one of...
My new blogging assignment
--I haven't written a blog post for a while due to extreme work pressures. I've had many ideas for a post, but no time to do so.I received an invitat...
Novocell - stem cells control diabetes in mice
--I see this news is being reported in several places. It's interesting because there's been so much talk about using stem cells to treat diabetes. N...
Focusing on the numbers
--Recently I put together a table for my endo. It showed how my blood glucose numbers had changed month to month since I started using the Dexcom. I ...
An antidote for diabetes
--Birdie Loo has an inspirational post on her blog Aiming for Grace about looking for an antidote.I like the idea of offsetting all the physical pain...
Meeting Dr. Faustman
--In early January I visited the Mass General Hospital research lab where Dr. Denise Faustman is leading research into a possible cure for type 1 dia...
ADA web site takes step backwards - Correction
--After I published the post below, I received comments from several people that they were able to read the ADA web site using Firefox. I checked the...
Intensive blood sugar control - dangerous in type 2 diabetes?
--You may have seen the news about changes in the ACCORD Trial. This is a clinical study of adults with type 2 diabetes who are at a higher risk for ...
Bookmarks:
Opera: State of the Mobile Web, June 2008
Review of how Opera mini is being used by different countries. Includes stats on the most popular phones by regio.
Measuring User Experience Performance
Detailed approach to measuring UX performance for a web application.
5 Useful Coding Solutions For Designers and Developers
Some interesting UI design alternatives.
Touch Usability
Blog about touchscreen interfaces
Natural User Interface Group
Some basic touch screen UI principles.
