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.

Pretty impressive level of detail, especially considering this is software for a handheld, not exerpted pages in a medical textbook.

Click the Read link below this post and you will be on Handango.com's order and download page for this product.

Diabetes Quick Care Study

• Splits
• Hand Therapy
• Steroid Treatments
• Drugs
• Heat and ice
• Ultrasound
• Changing your habit aka less typing on the BlackBerry

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.

"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."

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.

Uh-oh.

BlackBerry Cool refers us to an article in the Toronto Star about an Arizona spa that offers a BlackBerry Balm Hand Massage.

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?

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.

Time we put this in perspective, people.

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?"

Cited in today's Washington Post, PC World writer James A. Martin reviews a simple procedure to minimize what he and others deem "BlackBerry squint." That would be eyestrain or blurred vision that some BlackBerry users get from staring at the small BlackBerry screen for too long.

One remedy he recommends: add a magnfiying glass to your BlackBerry. The Magnifico Plus is around $15, and can be clipped on to your handheld.

There's also an OWL (Optical Wallet Light) card, (at top) which combines a magnifying lens with an LED light. They are helpful in dimly lit places. Of course, your BlackBerry already should have a backlit screen, so the lens on the $3 OWL card would be what you would want it for.

Citing the procedure on the BlackBerry Support pages, Martin recomends selecting the Options icon on your BlackBerry, specifying Screen/Keyboard, then choosing Font Size.

Next, you will want to push the track wheel in to select the Change option. After that, roll the track wheel up to make the text larger, or down to decrease the size. Pick the size you prefer, then push the track wheel in to save your selection.

Tomorrow is Monday, which starts the first five-day week for many of us in the last three weeks.

So much to remember. So many things to track.

If you find your brain is not so compartmentalized you can remember everything, John Williams (the author, not the composer) has written a BlackBerry-compatible ebook entitled- what was the name of that again- "Maximum Memory Power."

This isn't an endorsement or a critique, but merely a pointer to this ebook's availability.  Don't let me "forget" to tell you, that your BlackBerry will need a PDF viewer to read this work.

"Maximum Memory Power" costs $9.99, but Club Handango Members pay $8.99.

Remember to click the Read link below this post. That will get you to Handango.com's Maximum Memory Power page.

Can't vouch for this one, but might be worth checking out.

I'm talking about a new BlackBerry-compatible ebook entitled "The Complete Guide To Migraine Headaches." It's written by Alice Peart.

Costs $9.99, or $8.99 for Club Handango Members.

To read this ebook once you order and download it, you'll need a BlackBerry with a PDF viewer.

Click the Read link below this post and you will be on the Handango.com page for "The Complete Guide To Migraine Headaches."

Medical publishing platform developer Unbound Medicine has just released Unbound Publishing, a suite of publishing and authoring modules for medical information to be configured for BlackBerry and other handheld devices.

I think this will be sold to medical schools, dead-tree medical information publishers, pharmaceutical firms, and maybe even hospitals that would like to publish health notes for their patients.

Sounds pretty cool, too, right?

Many of us will wash down our Fourth of July picnic fare (blackberry cobbler, anyone?) with a glass of wine or beer. And another. And another.

It's tempting. Right now I am in my Seattle hotel room passing on a free-flowing party with a bunch of bloggers. But I had a glass of wine with an early dinner and that's about it for me.

There are probably a few of you that may not have those boundaries, and drink a bit too much.

What - outside the fact that BlackBerry and alcohol can both be habit forming- does this have to do with BlackBerry?

The confluence occurs with Take Control of Alcohol, an ebook for the BlackBerry platform.

Claire Nash's ebook is a comprehensive guide to confronting what just might be alcohol overuse on your part- and then getting it under control.

"Take Control of Alcohol" costs $9.99 on Handango, or $8.99 on Club Handango. That's far far cheaper than a DUI.

Take control of your browser by clicking the Read link below this post. You'll arrive on Handango.com's Take Control of Alcohol page.