By
AmyT on
September 5, 2012
Apropos to today’s newsflash…
Diabetes advocate and author Riva Greenberg has been on a “meter accuracy kick” lately — researching the heck out of this controversial topic. Very timely considering I’ve been seeing loads of expensive TV ads for Accu-Chek’s new Nano meter, claiming that it’s “23% more accurate” (!)
Riva recently published a piece at the Huffington Post on why meter accuracy is both less, and more, critical than you might think. Truth is, she tells us,…
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By
MikeH on
September 5, 2012
Q) What looks like a USB stick but has a bright color screen, wirelessly communicates with Medtronic insulin pumps, and is more accurate than your average glucometer?
A) It’s a brand new meter called the Contour Next Link, co-developed by Medtronic and Bayer and announced on Tuesday through a news release sent to some Diabetes Online Community members and via Medtronic’s blog, The Loop. We reached out to PR directors at both companies to learn…
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By
AmyT on
September 4, 2012
If you have type 2 diabetes and you use a glucose meter — or if you have a meter but don’t use it regularly for some reason — we need your help. I have been asked to compile an article for the ADA journal Diabetes Spectrum on T2 patient feedback and their experiences with glucose monitoring.
For this purpose, we are running a brief survey over at DiabeticConnect and I ask you to please, please (pretty please!) take…
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By
MikeH on
September 4, 2012
When he started writing his newest novel, True Believers, award-winning author and public radio show host Kurt Andersen didn’t think diabetes would become a part of the story the way it did. But what the Brooklyn author and longtime type 1 ended up with was just that: a book that weaves life with type 1 diabetes into the narrative in a brand new way.
As a fictitious first-person novel, the book opens a cracked window to…
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By
AmyT on
September 3, 2012
Labor, labor, labor. That pretty much sums up life with diabetes, does it not?
On this Labor Day 2012, we’re thinking of all the folks who work so hard every day to improve our lives with diabetes: you know, the device-makers and HC providers and all of those who toil daily to help us PWDs better manage our daily D-Lives.
And so, today we offer an Ode to All Diabetes Workers:
To those who make…
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