Not only does the winning design win up to $10,000, it could also help transform the lives of millions of people living with diabetes.

You have until May 1st to enter. Full instructions can be found at the Enter the Contest page.

Check out last year’s winning entries, which include an online logbook and a Pez-candy-like dispenser for glucose test strips, to get into the creative groove.

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Brain Blogger reports on how Depression and Diabetes Linked in Pregnancy.

Woman Tribune discusses Cheerios partnership with WomenHeart. Find out how you can help Cheerios donate to heart disease research, and get a free cholestrol screening at Cheerios Circle of Helping Hearts. Plus enter to win a freshwater pearl bracelet.

Tushar Mathur from Talking About Green gives us Ways To Go Green In The Kitchen.

Joel Gray from Health Tips 101 tells you to Open Your Mouth and Check for Cancer.

Cynthia Kerry from Best Fat Loss Reviews reports on Different ways you can get rid of belly fat.

Ruth from Camping Tips discusses How to Buy Hiking Boots.

J.D. Bell from It Takes Work presents Dr. Seuss Explains The Bailout | it-takes-work.com.

ChristianPF from Natural Health Ezine asks Does Oscillococcinum really work?.

Arnel from Your Skin Care Blog looks at The Importance of Getting Acne treatment.

Y Niz from Sinus Pressure Relief offers some Home Remedies For Sinus Infection.

Victor from How to get rid of anxiety and panic writes about Facing Reality in How to Get Rid of Panic and Anxiety. Self Help Guide.

Alvin Hopkinson from High Blood Pressure Treatment and Medication Reviews looks at How Fats in our Diet Cause High Blood Pressure.

GreatManagement from Free Organic News discusses Organic Skin Care – The Nice And Simple Way.

And that’s it for this edition of the Healthbolt Carnival.

Don’t forget to submit your health and wellness blog article to the next edition of healthbolt carnival using our carnival submission form.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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It’s time for the weekly Healthbolt Carnival read, so grab a coffee, get comfortable and start clicking.

Just_Kelly from Choosing Losing! doesn’t hold back with her review of POM juice in this Product Review: The one where POM Wonderful slightly pisses off Kelly…

Brain Blogger has a new look at the potental uses for Lithuim in s Lithium as a Neuroprotectant?.

Joel Gray from Health Tips 101 has information on Summer Tea: Blackberry/ Raspberry Leaf Tea.

Logan from Lose Over Weight offers 5 simple ways to reduce stress in Stress – HOWTO Manage It.

Madeleine Begun Kane from Mad Kane’s Humor Blog entertains with Ode To Takeout (Song Parody to be sung to My Favorite Things), a poem originally written for And They Cook, Too: A Blogger Cookbook and fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders

J.D. Bell from It Takes Work suggests, if you want to get fit, that you Get On Your Bikes and Ride.

Sam from Weight Loss Blogs thinks small lifestyle changes are the answer to weight loss blues All Diets Work -No Diets Work.

Alvin Hopkinson from How to Control Diabetes lists the 8 signs to watch out for in the Signs of Diabetes.

Bretislav Slansky from Workouts routines For Toning discusses the The Best Workout Routines For Toning.

Alvin Hopkinson from Kidney Stone Remedy has ten useful tips in Passing Kidney Stones.

Kara-Leah Grant from Prana Flow NZ suggests yoga might be The best detox diet you can ever do.

John Catanach from My Passion for Better Health thinks that Weight Loss Surgery For Men Should Include A Medical ID.

John Catanach from Woman Health News discusses How Effective The Birth Control Shot Is.

And that’s it for this edition of the Healthbolt Carnival.

You can submit your blog article to the next edition of Healthbolt Carnival using our carnival submission form.

Remember that Healthbolt reserves the write to include or not include submitted posts. Those posts that are aimed entirely at selling a product will not be included. And, as always, only one post per blog.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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DiabetesMine and Medgadget are co-hosting the 2nd Annual DiabetesMine Design Challenge…

“a competition designed to foster innovation in diabetes design and encourage creative new tools that will improve life with diabetes.”

This challenge is a follow on from the Open Letter to Steve Jobs that Amy Tenderich from DiabetesMine posted last year right after Apple Inc. has sold its 100-Millionth iPod. Amy’s open letter challenged Steve Jobs and the ‘gods of consumer design’ to champion the diabetic cause and help show the medical device industry how to create more feel good and look good diabetic devices – in other words, move medical devices out of the clunky into the cool.

I don’t know if Amy got any response from Steve Jobs but it did create lots of discussion and conversation, plus some new prototypes, designs, and ideas.

Somehow I think she’s given up on Apple Inc coming to the party. Instead she has issued a challenge to everyone and anyone -individuals and organizations – to put on their thinking caps and start designing.

You’ll need to head over to DiabetesMine to get the full rundown on offical contest rules but here’s a brief synopsis…

* there are two categories – under 18 and over 18.

* Submissions can be made beginning April 30, 2008, until Monday, May 26st, 2008, at 11:59 pm PST.

* All entries must be in the form of a movie or an animation, no more than 2 minutes long (all content in English), which will be submitted by uploading into the DiabetesMine™ channel on YouTube.

* Each product or design concept must be new, i.e. introduced within the last half-year, or in development phase, possibly undergoing user testing now.

The winner from each category will recieve a combination of rewards…

* prize money of $1,000 each in two entry categories. (provided by sponsors Cory and Justin Oringer who have both been living with Type 1 diabetes for more than 10 years each)

* a two hour workshop from IDEO’s Health and wellness consultants to help refine your concept.

* free access ticket for the winner of the adult catagory to the “innovation incubator” Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, October 21-23rd, 2008.

* promotion of the winners by MedGadget and DiabetesMine through articles and blogs, and possibly also feature some of the coolest finalists.

This is a great chance for would be designers to make their mark.

So spread the word.

And don’t forget, the official contest website and rules can be found at Diabetes Mine…

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