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Moving diabetes design forward
Amy Tenderich of DiabetesMine has just announced the start of the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. This year the grand prize is $10,000. So you can improve the state of diabetes design and win some...
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Dexcom gets a positive review for 10-day use
The March issue of Diabetes Care contains a paper about testing the Dexcom SEVEN for 10-day use with adults with type 1 diabetes.The Dexcom SEVEN continuous glucose monitor has been approved for 7 days...
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March meetups in Massachusetts
I couldn't resist the alliteration, sorry.There are two opportunities to meetup with folks in Massachusetts this month. This coming Sunday a group of us will be getting together in Marlboro for a...
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TuDiabetes turns two
TuDiabetes.com, the social networking site for "People Touched by Diabetes", was started two years ago. It is a very active community with over 7,000 people and it grows at the rate of 15% every month....
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The GlucaPen, a big improvement on Glucagon shots
I had an interesting conversation last week with Dick Rylander of Enject. We spoke at some length about their product, the GlucaPen, that they hope to have on the market before long. It's a simpler way...
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Cozmo Insulin Pump no longer being sold
I was sitting in the dentist's office this afternoon and looking at some tweets, when this one from Manny caught my eye. It pointed to his page about the news that Smiths-Medical is getting out of the...
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Meeting Manny and Simple Steps for Health
Yesterday I was fortunate to spend a few hours with Manny Hernandez, founder of TuDiabetes. Over lunch we talked about various efforts that underway to help folks with diabetes to improve their...
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Lancets, bloody lancets
Those of us living with diabetes think a lot about technology choices. Which blood glucose meter is smallest, coolest looking, fastest. Will a specific continuous glucose monitor work for me. Should I...
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Dealing with one of my fears
From time to time I'm reminded about just how devastating diabetes might be. In this case I'm not thinking of the various complications that we think about all the time. This is a situation that those...
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Omnipod eco-friendly disposal
Yesterday Insulets, makers of the OmniPod insulin pump, announced a disposal program. To my knowledge they are the first diabetes product maker that's working to reduce the waste we all deal with to...
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An effusion of testing
At 4 PM EST today, a lot of folks were testing their blood sugar readings. Paraphrasing Kerri, you could almost hear the collective shunk of our lancets.Anyone with diabetes tests their blood sugar...
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Travelling to the Roche Diabetes Care summit
Just a quick post while I'm waiting to board a plane.The event has been organized by Roche, makers of the Accu-Chek line of products. Among other things we'll be talking about is How can bloggers and...
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Diabetes Social Media Summit
I think I'm the last person to write-up about this meeting so consider this a short recap.Roche Diagnostics organized this meetup with help from Amy Tenderich and Manny Hernandez. Roche paid all of our...
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Medingo Solo Micropump approved by FDA
I can't find any pictures of this device, but there are various announcements today that the FDA has given formal clearance to Medingo Ltd to market its Solo MicroPump in the US. On the Medingo site,...
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JDRF and Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Trials
JDRF has launched an online service to connect folks with type 1 diabetes to clinical trials related to type 1. The JDRF Clinical Trials Connection site gives you an opportunity to participate in...
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Healing wounds with insulin
It's been known for some time that applying insulin to wounds can speedup healing. Now there's news (thanks to MedGadget.com) of a new approach to applying the insulin -- Nanodiamonds.According to a...
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More on the Medingo Solo
I blogged last week about the approval of the Medingo Solo insulin pump by the FDA. This week Medingo is showing it at the AADE conferenceand they've finally unveiled more details at the Medingo Solo...
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Trying out lower carb living
At the recent diabetes care summit, I was fortunate to share a ride from the airport with a great diabetes blogger, David Mendosa. David has type 2 diabetes. and one of the things we talked about was...
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FDA warning - fatal errors with some glucose test strips
I received a public health notification this afternoon from the FDA. You may get high blood glucose test results if you're using test strips based on GDH-PQQ and you're taking medication that contains...
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The Ultimate Diabetes Resource
Earlier in the year at the Diabetes bloggers summit, my friend Gina gave me a preview of The Diabetes Resource. Even though this was waay back in July and long before the official launch, I was...
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