By
MikeH on
October 30, 2012
The topic for this month’s Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) blog carnival is a great one! It prompts us to directly address our healthcare providers (HCP) and certified diabetes educators (CDEs), telling them what we’d like THEM to learn from the Diabetes Online Community.
That’s a very important question, as we’re constantly thinking about how much we want our docs and educators to actually listen to us patients individually, rather than treating us all like…
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By
WilD on
October 27, 2012
Welcome back to our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine! Your host is veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week’s query has him doing a little science experiment to answer a question about re-using test strips… Not quite the 2-liter volcano like we made back in grade school, but educational and fun all the same!
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Randy, type 1 from Arizona asks: Is there…
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By
MikeH on
October 25, 2012
Ohio resident Carol Patterson, who donated her time and convinced some of her neighbors to help out the American Diabetes Association, is disgusted with the organization and doesn’t plan to contribute her time or money ever again.
Hearing her story makes us clench our fists, but even more infuriating and disappointing is how the ADA has responded to the allegations in question.
By now, it’s no secret Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek magazine ran an exposé on Sept.…
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By
AmyT on
October 24, 2012
An FDA approval of a new diabetes device is always an exciting thing, especially for a company that’s been in the holding pen for a while, waiting to get a device to market. That was the case this summer when Roche learned it had finally secured the regulatory agency’s OK for its Accu-Chek-Combo system.
Of course, we immediately started wondering how this new pump-with-glucose-meter-connectivity stacks up to already-available Animas OneTouch Ping? Has Roche one-upped the…
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