Get your mouse ready! The Diabetes Education & Camping Association — the organization that brings education resources and support to the 185 diabetes camps in North America — needs your help (in the form of clicks) to win the Pepsi Refresh Challenge.
Pepsi might seem like an unlikely source of funding, but DECA is in the running for a $50,000 grant to launch DStory – My Life with Diabetes, a video series “that will empower…
In case you’re looking for a fresh approach to making diabetes-related New Year’s Resolutions for 2011, look no further. A brand new book called “The Diabetes Manifesto” has all the direction you’ll need to turn over a new leaf in your diabetes life, in scrupulous step-by-step detail.
The book is written by Lynn Crowe, a lifetime type 1 (diagnosed at age 12), who is a senior product manager at Sanofi-Aventis; and Julie Stachowia, a PhD…
Anyone who’s ever looked over a traditional glucagon kit (scary! confusing!) will appreciate this: another company hot on the trail of developing a new compact, one-step injection device for treating severe hypoglycemia. This one is called GlucaGo, from a group of young entrepreneurs out of Purdue University.
Co-Founder Rush Bartlett explains: “Our device holds the drug in a freeze dried form until right before use when the user removes the cap, causing the freeze dried…
Obviously, the holidays are here. Haven’t you heard the Muzak? So… have you done your shopping? We’ve already surpassed the last night of Hanukkah this year (ugh), but for those of you still looking for something special to make someone with diabetes smile, take a look here first. This is the first official DBMine Holiday Gift Guide, featuring some “out of the box” ideas for giving —
Give the gift of… health items:
Stop guessing…
Today Medtronic announces what is sure to be the first of a whole new generation of diabetes management software: its CareLink® Pro 3.0 Therapy Management Software — the first system to include algorithms capable of analyzing data from a patient’s insulin pump, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device, and blood glucose meter “to identify the most important patient information in one easy-to-use dashboard.”
Take note that this first 3.0 version is for clinicians only, but similar programs…