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1. You Can Crash This Couple’s Wedding Without Even Getting Off Your Couch Welcome to the age of Periscope nuptials. <!--paging_filter-->It’s tough to ignore how much social media has changed weddings. A couple might coin their wedding hashtag within minutes of the proposal, and you can change your Facebook status to “married” right there at the ceremony. There’s room for innovation with the introduction of each new social medium, and this wedding season you can watch a couple exchange vows live on Periscope. Kyle Harris, 24, and Bryanna Mazzella, 23, are getting married May 30 at 3 p.m. EST in Long Island, New York, and they’re live-streaming the event on the brand-new...
2. LWD (Life with Diabetes) Video Friday: A Young Family’s Struggles Welcome back to our Friday "life with diabetes" video short series from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, who created the documentary film Sugar Babies. This week's snippet shows a family with a little girl diagnosed with type 1 about a year ago.It's a r... ...
3. Sunday Funnies: A Different Kind of D-Police You know those people who mean well, but can be so annoying when they ask questions or try to "help" us PWDs?You know, the ones we call the Diabetes Police?Well, what if we turned that whole thing around...? Thanks to talented contributor Terry... ...
4. Dear CMS, price matters Your government at work. Here's the pertinent quote from Melinda Beck's Wall Street Journal article on proton beam therapy:But some insurers are balking at paying premium rates for proton therapy for such common cancers without more evidence that it does improve patient outcomes—ideally from randomized controlled trials. Several are now under way, but it will be years before results are clear. Most Medicare regions cover proton therapy for prostate—at about $1,100 per treatment session, compared with $600 for IMRT. But several major insurers stopped after a 2012 study found it has no added long-term benefit. Men with prostate cancer had...
5. Mediterranean diet may help counteract age-related declines in memory and thinking skills When I make a salad, I drizzle olive oil onto it and toss in a handful of toasted walnuts. Could this simple, tasty habit help me stay mentally sharp in the coming years? Maybe so. A new study in this week’s JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that eating a Mediterranean-style diet enhanced with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts is good for your mind as well as your heart. These findings, which come from a long-term clinical trial of different diets, are the first ever to show possible brain-related benefits of one eating pattern over another. The participants were part of a...