For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?

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The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they should be a real threat to the medical profession.

Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.