I can point to friends and at least one family member with Type 2 Adult Onset Diabetes.
Perhaps you can as well. Or maybe you have Type 2 Diabetes yourself.
If you are, and you are a BlackBerry user (likely, since you are reading this) you may be interested in third-party softwaredeveloper MobileReference's Diabetes Quick Care Study Guide.
This BlackBerry-compliant, downloadable reference work has text and accompanied illustrations that give you a pretty good background on diabetes.
I have two more screens to show you. These are just two that illustrate the depth of detail this resource provides for BlackBerry users.
Then, also after the jump, I will tell you about pricing and where to download this work.
When I read this story I found myself amused by the quote "It's getting to be too much, and it's only going to get worse," from Dr Brault. This is followed by a comment that the Dr has only seen one patient with BlackBerry Thumb.
Did you wonder what your doctor might suggest if you get diagnosed with BlackBerry thumb?
Splits
Hand Therapy
Steroid Treatments
Drugs
Heat and ice
Ultrasound
Changing your habit aka less typing on the BlackBerry
Here's hoping we never get BlackBerry thumb. I don't think I could stop using mine.
I happen to suspect that tonight, many of you are going to parties to celebrate the season.
I read in a book somewhere that there are those Christmas party-goers who have too much to drink.
It may or may not have been in the same book that some of those same partyers are subject to hang-overs the next morning.
I deduce the statistical probability that some of these same partyers own BlackBerry devices.
I then posit that some of these same BlackBerry device owners read BBHub.
If this sounds like you, then you may want to bone up on MobileReference's new and FREE- woo hoo, BlackBerry-compliant Acupressure Guide for Relieving Hangovers.
As noted, this is free, but your BlackBerry has to have the free MobiPocket Reader already installed.
So important are the contents that I have posted them not in the .jpeg format we normally use here but as an animated .gif. There, on the upper right.
I am thinking that some medical professionals might want to know about a free Blackerry Resource Center webcast tomorrow entitled "Using the BlackBerry solution to enhance service delivery in the IT organization: the Harvard Medical School experience."
Presenter will be Marcos A. Athanasoulis, MPH, DrPH, Director of Information Technology Services and Research at the Harvard Medical School.
H'ell be talking about how the Med School support staff traded in their help desk system for a 500-BlackBerry-centered trouble-ticket approach. And oh by the way that trouble ticket deal has proven to be an ideal way to exchange confidential patient and student data in a secure manner.
The webcast takes place from Noon until 1 p.m. EST, and will be archived for on-demand listening.
Hyatt hotel chains have added the BlackBerry Balm massage at most of their spas. The special treatment is $30.00 for 30 minutes.
The spa director said they were receiving a lot of requests for hand and arm massages due to the usage of PDA devices. I might have to find a local Hyatt Spa and try it out. Let us know if you get the opportunity.
Any excuse for a massage works for me. My friend at work was telling me today that some companies are offering BlackBerry massages to employees to help prevent BlackBerry Thumb. They want to avoid BlackBerry injury lawsuits. Wish I could get massages at work.
Dallas, Texas-based high-technology company Hathaway Corporation says today that one of its subsidiaries, Diabetes Detections (DDI), is in talks with BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion to achieve BlackBerry compatibility for DDI's Vibrametric diagnostic device.
"While we are exploring opportunities with a variety of cellular phone manufacturers and medical device companies, " says Hathaway Corporation CEO Paul Lisenby," we are particularly interested in developing a relationship with RIM as we believe the BlackBerry is a great host for our Vibrametric device."
According to a study released yesterday at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine's annoual meeting in New Orleans (glad they are hosting conventions again), men who make calls on a mobile phone for mroe than four hours a day have lower sperm counts and poorer quality sperm than those men who do not yack on their cell for that long.
The study was led by Professor Ashok Agarwal, director of the Reproductive Research Centre at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. For you guys who might be affected, Prof. Agarwal's interpretation of these results aren't going to be all that pleasant to read.
Prof Agarwal noted the most likely mechanism was damage to sperm-making cells in the testes caused by electromagnetic radiation or heat.
He said: "These cells in the testes have been shown to be susceptible to electromagnetic waves in previous research in animals," he said. "Somehow electromagnetic waves may be causing direct damage to these cells and that perhaps causes a decrease in sperm production."
But what if you carry your BlackBerry in a holster, and don't actually talk on it four hours a day?
Prof. Agarwal pointed out to the London Daily Mail's Jenny Hope that handsets may also increase temperature in the groin, if a man was wearing it on a belt or carrying it around in a pocket.
Lexi-Comp, a subscription-based provider of drug information and related content for the healthcare industry, has debuted a new Lexi-Comp ON-HAND service for BlackBerry users.
The system works by caching frequently accessed content on the handset, with real-time i[dated content pushed down to the user's BlackBerry.
ON-HAND content comes in a variety of one, two and three-year subsciption plans. I've capped the BlackBerry two year plan products at the top of this post.
In doing this, the marketing angle of Spa Avania at the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort in Arizona (pictured above) is that thumbed-out execs will welcome their new "Blackberry Balm Hand Massage."
Not only is this a deep, therapeutic massage focusing on the thumbs and wrists, but the technique uses a incorporates a "Blackberry Balm."
The Blam, describes the Toronto Star's Cathy Stapells, contains "natural Blackberry powder with a high antioxidant content, a natural exfoliate that reduces inflammation and contains natural fruit acids, cajaput (a cousin to Tea Tree with antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties), camphor oil (reduces inflammation and muscle tension) and cinnamon, clove and peppermint (invigorates and stimulates circulation)."
Yesterday while on a BART rapid transit train in Oakland, California, I saw a fellow passenger do something with his (non-BlackBerry) cell phone that gave me an idea for a gadget that could be used with a BlackBerry.
The rider was holding up his cell phone close to his face. With his other hand, he was strategically positioning a magnifying glass over his cell phones display window.
This fellow apparently was quite near-sighted.
I have to think that some BlackBerry users could find value in a magnifying glass that could be clipped on to a BlackBerry to make the text in the display window that much larger.
Do you know anyone who might be interested in such a solution?
Yea, when I first heard about this session I first hought "Pepcid AC," or whatever.
But I was wrong, so wrong. Turns out that PEPID LLC is a developer of mobile support software for doctors and nurses.
Some of whom, of course, use (well duh) BlackBerrys.
That's enough to get RIM marketing manager for life sciences Fraser Edward (who I am sure gets tired of being mis-addressed as Edward Fraser) interested enough to present the session about how to use PEPID products on the BlackBerry.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Virginia Young writes that the administration of Missouri Governor Matt Blunt is clamping down on new state purchases of BlackBerry devices.
For state employees directly under Blunt's control, they can only use BlackBerrys if their jobs involve lots of travel and a need to be reachable 24 hours a day.
If you are deskbound, you don't qualify, sorry. Unless, you are a a state IT department employee, a department director or a deputy director.
Blunt's commissioner of administration Mike Keathley told Young that Gov. Blunt does not want employees to covet BlackBerrys as status syumbols.
"The BlackBerry is like the golden goose," added Keathley's assistant commissioner, Rich AuBuchon. "Everybody wants one."
One notable exception to the Blunt administration's tight-fistedness: becuase many of the director of deaf services for the Department of Mental Health are deaf and use a BlackBerry for text messaging, he received a BlackBerry.
Here's another take on the addictiveness of BlackBerry, and my reax.
A study by Rutgers University Prof. Gayle Porter blames BlackBerry for fueling a spike in email and Internet addiction. The key symptoms: you can only go a few minutes without checking for new email.
The good Perfessor then goes on to say that these addictive effects can be devastating, and that employers should really realize that "addiction to technology" can be equally as "damaging to a worker's mental health" as chemical or substance addictions.
To which I say, moo goo.
I have worked alongside longtime alcoholics and cokeheads. This type of stuff gets you fired, arrested, sometimes even makes you dead.
BlackBerry addiction makes you inattentive and irritating. And not that I would know, but no one ever got the shakes or DT's from being without their email for a bit.
As part of my home office move and all the technical migration tasks that go along with it, I've been timing lots of tasks lately.
It's become pretty obvious to me that if I had a count-down timer utility on my BlackBerry, that all these procedures I have been dealing with of late would go that much more efficiently.
Well, one of my next tasks will be to fork over $9.99 for a copy of GoTimeIt Stop Watch and Countdown Timer for BlackBerry.
The utility has alarm configuration, including elapsed time. And when a preconfigured amount of time elapses, you can elect to be notified via an optional tone, vibration or flash LED alarm.
There are also "last lap" and "lap time history" for runners and cyclists (hence the Health tag for this post). But the more I write about running and cycling, I start kicking myself into guilt trip mode.
GoTimeIt is compatible with all BlackBerry 7xxx and 87xx series models.
Click the Read link below this post, and in no "time at all," you'll be on GoTimeIt's page on mobile software site NeonToad.
From the sound of it, BlackBerry-user RandomBird.com has been thru a rough patch over the last few days.
Let's clean this up.
Pitcher of maragaritas,( including the one at the right) "multiple Jager bombs" accompanied by toasts with her 1986 kindergarten classmate commemorating those good old days, temporarily losing her BlackBerry, breaking her index finger.
Goes to ER. Finger in splint. Wants Percocet, doesn't get it. Boo-hoo on that. Ibuprofen, 600 milligrams worth will have to do.
And, after allof this, RandomBird is still typing.
"Thankful that BlackBerry typing only involves thumbs," she writes.
Yes, RandomBird, but what about "BlackBerry thumb?"
When I read this story I found myself amused by the quote "It's getting to be too much, and it's only going to get worse," from Dr Brault. This is followed by a comment that the Dr has only seen one patient with BlackBerry Thumb.
I happen to suspect that tonight, many of you are going to parties to celebrate the season.
Hyatt hotel chains have added the BlackBerry Balm massage at most of their spas. The special treatment is $30.00 for 30 minutes.
Dallas, Texas-based high-technology company 
According to a study released yesterday at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine's annoual meeting in New Orleans (glad they are hosting conventions again), men who make calls on a mobile phone for mroe than four hours a day have lower sperm counts and poorer quality sperm than those men who do not yack on their cell for that long.
On Wednesday, the BlackBerry Enterprise Resource Center will offer a free 30-minute webcast entitled, 
