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AmyT on
April 22, 2007
Could this be the answer to our device design dreams?
Two companies in Switzerland are busy developing a tiny precision pump, that looks, well… iPod-like!
The Nanopump will be “a unique miniaturized insulin-delivery pump… which relies on microfluidic MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) technology, a breakthrough concept that allows a tiny pump to be mounted on a disposable skin patch to provide continuous insulin infusion.” According to Debiotech’s web site, this will be the first-ever application of…
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AmyT on
April 21, 2007
A little older and a little wiser (?)…
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AmyT on
April 20, 2007
I haven’t said anything about the massacre at Virginia Tech, because I didn’t know what to say. I really didn’t… But now I’ve discovered that Leroy Sievers over at NPR’s MyCancer blog has already said it so well:
“I read today that 30,000 people die in gun violence every year, and yet, we don’t talk about it much… The toll from gun violence is horrendous. The toll on our highways is even higher. And the…
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AmyT on
April 20, 2007
Another kindred spirit, and this one found me! Sheri Colberg-Ochs is an author, lecturer, researcher, professor, exercise physiologist, and expert on exercise and diabetes. She is also a mother of three school-aged children, and living with Type 1 diabetes herself (just like me). She was diagnosed as a child, and has built her life around making a better world for people with diabetes. She writes numerous articles and columns in addition to her five book…
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AmyT on
April 19, 2007
Animas, for one, claims that it’s listening hard to what users want in an insulin pump. When the company launched its new Animas 2020 “performance” insulin pump a few weeks ago, they sure went gangbusters on the testimonials, that’s for sure. Check out the product website, featuring a whole lot of streaming video of both patients and company insiders talking about the benefits of pumping, and their rugged new design. (Of course, “rugged” may not…
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