Pump site rotation has long been an issue for me, and it’s a common one for many PWDs (people with diabetes) that can cause all kinds of craziness when it comes to scar tissue, insulin absorption, and erratic blood sugar levels.
A pumper for 11+ years now (not counting my current pump hiatus), I’ve tried a variety of options — keeping notes of site rotation in my logbook, on a whiteboard calendar, sticky pad notes…
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Ever look at a diabetes product and wonder what the heck the developers were THINKING? People have to live with this stuff, after all! It’s even more interesting when they occasionally get it right…
Kim Blickenstaff, CEO of Tandem Diabetes Care, was unable to attend our DiabetesMine Innovation Summit event this year, but reached out to me to offer an inside view of how Tandem “got its groove on” to create the t:slim, the first-ever…
A HUGE thank you to everyone who attended and helped with the 2012 DiabetesMine Innovation Summit held at Stanford University this past Friday.
With incredibly frank conversations happening between patient advocates, Pharma execs, entrepreneurs, HCPs, designers, standards and industry experts, and the FDA itself (three agency directors were present!), it certainly felt like we are on the verge of changing the Diabetes World for the better!
There is so much to report. But I am…
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…
Those of us in the U.S. sometimes feel as though our Diabetes Community friends across the pond get all the coolest gadgets and medications before we do Stateside.
A preview of highlights at this year’s big diabetes shindig, the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), reinforced that feeling but brings a whole lot of excitement, since we are getting a glimpse into the future of what’s to come.
The EASD…