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Archive for the ‘Guest Essays’ Category
Hanuman Collaborator Wins JDRF Grant to Study Encapsulation
May 10th, 2013
by John D. Golenski Executive Director, Hanuman Medical Foundation I have good and bad news to share with readers of The Sheet. First the bad: Scott King’s sister, Debby King Mustard, who was diagnosed last December with inoperable brain cancer, passed away peacefully Sunday morning. Scott and other family members were with her. The [...]
Welcome Guest Blogger Will Hall
January 30th, 2013
Ed: While Scott King remains absent on family matters, we’re very pleased to introduce Will Hall, a higher education development officer who has lived with type 1 diabetes for 25 years, and who has volunteered to share his personal experience in occasional guest postings. The Hanuman website and this blog tend to be dominated by [...]
Randy's Method of Discovery
September 28th, 2009
We’ve been successful in bringing a number of medical products to market. We thought it might be useful to some to share the way we go about solving problems to produce useful devices and methods.
We consider it important to keep things simple and to avoid, as one former collaborator described it, “paralysis by analysis”. In other words, to avoid getting lost in mountains of minutiae and losing sight of the obvious. I’ve often said, only half in jest, that I protect my ignorance as a pianist protects his hands. By focusing excessively on what has gone before, one sometimes runs the risk of becoming persuaded by the apparent impossibility of certain approaches or being lured by the promise of tantalizing findings leading ultimately down dead end pathways.
Diabetes: Past, Present, Future
July 27th, 2009
Diabetes is one of man’s oldest known diseases, having been first described in Ancient Egypt in the Ebers papyrus. However treatment of diabetes only changed in the 20th century. Prior to 1922, the best treatment for Type 1 diabetes was the Allen diet. – an extremely low-carbohydrate and low-calorie diet. The quality of life associated with this unsustainable therapy was poor and adherence only prolonged life for weeks in most cases. Dr. Allen commented that patients were rarely compliant with this diet, often smuggling in a piece of bread. Pictures of the patients from this time reveal severe wasting, only now seen in concentration camp victims and during severe famines.
