In just a few months, it’ll be time to dust off your orange and join DiabetesSisters in its mission to create greater awareness of the unique struggle women often face when living with diabetes.

The Script Your Future Campaign is trying to make the connection for patients between medication adherence today and health and happiness in the future. Are you ready to take your pledge?

Brandy Barnes of DiabetesSisters wants her members to be able to truly connect with other women with diabetes, so she is now helping them build a network of “sisters” they can rely on and reach out to. She is now matching women based on attitudes and preferences, similar to the methods employed by some popular dating sites.

Rather than strive for stress free, how about stress smart?

Trying to get motivate patients to adopt healthier behaviors? Its time to start understand what really gets them moving.

Last week, I attended the Pulmonary Hypertension Professional Network Symposium in Crystal City, Virginia. It was a gathering of approximately 400 PH-treating allied health professionals and others working to make a difference in the field of pulmonary hypertension.

Would you trade 22 minutes of your life for an hour of TV watching? New research suggests that we are shortening our life every time we turn on the tube.

Thousands of extreme tanners were duped into viewing skin cancer prevention messages. Will they give up their sun worshipping ways?

The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a report recently indicating that caregivers are “more likely than other adults to use social network sites to gather and share health information and support.”

This past weekend, I saw firsthand that orange certainly does empower women with diabetes.